"Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?"

-- Frederick William Faber

#Government Quotes #Evil Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.”
“The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.”
“[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.”
“Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”
“I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate.”
“I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.”
“Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me”
“Passion is born deaf and dumb.”

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