"Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him."

-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Commitment Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wife Quotes

“So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?”
“It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”
“FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs”
“Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.”
“We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.”
“Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent”, p.8
“It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda”
“I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.”

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