source: Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

topic: Baby, Grandma, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother Grandmother

The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Uplifting, Heart, Hands, Entrusting

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

- James C. Collins

topic: Smart, Self, People, Entrusting, Business Management

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

- Thucydides

topic: Thinking, People, Desire, Wishful Thinking, Entrusting

Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

- Anthony Bourdain

source: Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean, Calculating, Shutting Down

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

- Ronald Fisher

topic: Believe, Teaching, Men, Entrusting

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

- Winston Churchill

source: Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

topic: Horse, War, Science, Steam Engines, Combustion

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

- David Nasaw

topic: Children, Government, Liberty, Entrusting

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Integrity, Arbitrary, Guarantees, Inspectors, Entrusting

It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.

- Peter Medawar

source: Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Blood, Observance, Refreshments

For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.

- Donald J. Boudreaux

topic: Government, Office, Political, Entrusting, Unjustified

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

- Jonathan Sacks

source: "Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

topic: Believe, People, Giving, Entrusting

Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

- Brandon Mull

topic: Necks, Pieces, World, Entrusting

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

- Muriel Barbery

topic: Opening Up, Soul, Life Is, Entrusting

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