Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, February 2021, Remarks by President Biden to Department of Defense Personnel, February 10, 2021
responding to allegations in
2010s, 2012 Presidential campaign
Context: I have prescription medication that I take whenever symptoms arise and they keep the migraines under control. I'd like to be abundantly clear: My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, February 2021, Remarks by President Biden to Department of Defense Personnel, February 10, 2021
“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Antonio Negri book Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
110-111
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Ursula Goodenough (1943) American biologist
Quoted in "Speaking of Faith: The Morality of Nature" by Krista Tippett in American Public Media (7 April 2005) http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/moralityofnature/kristasjournal.shtml <br class="br">Context: I profess my Faith. For me, the existence of all this complexity and awareness and intent and beauty, and my ability to apprehend it, serves as the ultimate meaning and the ultimate value. The continuation of life reaches around, grabs its own tail, and forms a sacred circle that requires no further justification, no Creator, no super-ordinate meaning of meaning, no purpose other than that the continuation continue until the sun collapses or the final meteor collides. I confess a credo of continuation. And in so doing, I confess as well a credo of human continuation.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work. I have never served a work as I would like to, but I do try, with each book, to serve to the best of my ability, and this attempt at serving is the greatest privilege and the greatest joy that I know.
“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”
Thorstein Veblen book The Theory of the Leisure Class
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 62
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 143
Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
“My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.”
Natsuo Kirino book Grotesque
Source: Grotesque
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter