As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Friedrich Schiller
As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
Lamar Alexander
As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music. Lamar Alexander
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As he did so the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat.
As he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me, I being nearest to him, put these flowers round your neck, here he handed to me a wreath of withered garlic blossoms, for other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this knife, and for aid in all, these so small electric lamps, which you can fasten to your breast, and for all, and above all at the last, this, which we must not desecrate needless.
As he went on, however, he grew more angry and more forceful, till in the end we could not but see wherein was at least some of that personal dominance which made him so long a master amongst men.
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. Martin Chemnitz
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Mohandas Gandhi
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
