“Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.” PeopleGivingActionImaginationAchieveSpecialGreatnessColdVainPreservesChampionGreat PeopleGift From GodSleepySpecial Gifts Author:Martin Luther
“Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.” IfsWantFeelsTryingI CanIdeasArtistValuesAchieveMusicianCommittedVideoPreservesFilmmakingLogistics Author:Adria Petty
“Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.” AmericaFightingBornStruggleVirtueAchieveGoodnessBreadPreservesPerpetualAntiquesEndowmentDaily BreadHeirlooms Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.” MenEndsFeelingsIndividualBeliefCausesGrowthFireAchieveProductsGravesPreservesOutcomesIntensityAtomsHeroismHis LoveHopes And FearsIndividual LifeUnyieldingPrevision Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.” NeedsRealFightingEnvironmentImpossibleAchieveIntegrityAimInstrumentsInternationalTerrorismTerroristRussiaPracticalsPreservesOrganisationTerritorial Author:Vladimir Putin
“If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.” IfsThinkingShouldGovernmentGoalMoralPathAchieveDangerGainsAbsolutesClimateNuclearPreservesCaliforniaEnlightenedProgressiveWarfareImperativesReinsSecession Author:David Swanson