“We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.” WayEndsRememberSpiritLostOfficeRadicalOur TimeRestless Author:Ed Miliband
“I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.” KindMeanDifferentMovingSpiritPrayingBedOfficeAll KindsI PrayOval Author:George W. Bush
“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.” ActionLawSpiritSportsCitizensMoralityOfficeTraditionIndependentWorkersFinishedTechniqueObjectivesEncountersReliefCarrieCustomsDistractionFactoriesCriteriaDeviation Author:Jacques Ellul
“Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us.” ThinkingInspirationSpiritPrinciplesTroubleCommunicationOfficeInstitutionsLiftsConvincePresidencyConvince Us Author:David Gergen
“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.” FirstsI CanTodayAmericaSpiritFeetLandPossibilityOfficeFirst TimeWindowEightGoldenImmigrantsGrandparentBostonLimitlessHarborsStairsGreat GrandparentsLimitless Possibilities Author:Edward Kennedy
“We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.” KnowsSpiritPrayerEffortEnemyDivineOfficeFruitDefeatWickedUtility Author:John Climacus
“On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'” MenLifeSuccessSpiritHonestyMastersPrayingOfficePicksLet MeStrikesSavingNecksNot AfraidSuccess In LifeI PrayHeedExecutionersLieutenants Author:Thomas More
“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.” MenMeanPersonsShowsWisdomHandsWantedSpiritPoliticsBornWealthCitiesEconomyDangerousBuildingOfficeAmbitionHighestLowsAccountsPropertyEntertainmentRichesFallenLiberalismRomeDaringDistributionInclinationCommonwealthImpetusDistribution Of WealthSumptuous Book:Greek and Roman Lives Source: Greek and Roman Lives
“A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.” MenWellsPersonsSoulSpiritExistenceObjectsOfficeClothesDressesTradeFacultyPursesDandy Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.” MenHeartSpiritReligionOrderJusticeDangerMoralityOfficeSilentOperationsMotiveTemperanceOverlooked Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion