“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.” WorldFeelsWellsMayChristianLawLyingPurposeHumanityChristianityRightsThis WorldReadyDutyHeroHigherCitizensDegreesTasksCastsFollowingDeedsAwakeEndeavorReverenceSmall ThingsLoftyResoluteLooking DownBasenessHigher Law Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.” HumansEndsLawFightingEvilForceForeverHuman NatureReadySpringWeightFruitAncientSeekingSeedsBarsBitterInevitableClimbsTraitsRestraintIncessantly Author:James Weldon Johnson
“In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.” PeopleWorldPlayFunnyLawWaitingSunCarReadyHollywoodGolfClubsCaliforniaUnemployedGolf ClubsRolls RoyceChauffeurs Book:A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman Source: A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman
“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.” WayEndsFormLawUnderstandingAbilityPathAtheismDangerousReadyFunctionResponsePositive AtheismScreensKneesOver YouTemporaryComprehensionJerkJudgmentalBlinkPrecedentDead EndsOpaqueLittering Book:Chapterhouse: Dune Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.” IfsLawBrainSecurityReadyBlowLockedHomelandHomeland SecurityMartial Law Author:Gerald Celente
“It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.” ThinkingMatterLawChurchReligiousFieldsReadyMembersLaysTolerateClergy Author:Anne Roe