"Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility."

-- Hannah Arendt

#Responsibility Quotes #Keys Quotes #Effort Quotes

“It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.”

Source : "Jane Asher: this much I know". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.”
“I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.”
“A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.”

Source : "A Lifelong Love: How to Have Lasting Intimacy, Friendship, and Purpose in Your Marriage". Book by Gary L. Thomas, 2014.
“His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap”
“I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.”
“Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.”

Source : Song: Nothing From Nothing

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