250s Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. — Thomas Jefferson

When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, "It is finished" (John 19:30). The Greek word translated "it is finished" was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant "paid in full". Christ died so that the certificate of debt, consisting of all our sins, could once and for all be marked "paid in full". — Randy Alcorn

It's more important to be read than paid. — S.L. Walker

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear. — David Anthony Durham

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably. — Rachel Maddow

Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country has so dearly bought. — Henry Hazlitt

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. — Robert Krulwich

There had always been a little wiggle room in state abortion laws, because doctors were still permitted to perform them for "therapeutic" reasons - to save a woman's life, for example.7 But what did that mean, exactly? An amicus curiae brief in Roe from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other medical groups observed that "a woman suffering from heart disease, diabetes or cancer whose pregnancy worsens the underlying pathology may be denied a medically indicated therapeutic abortion under the statute because death is not certain. — Katha Pollitt

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages. — Louise Fresco

God often presents us with the test of love at the point when we ourselves are struggling. — Sunday Adelaja

Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person. — Robin Hobb

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good. — Mike Singletary