262 Quotes & Sayings

Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but alas, not always the church. Far too many equate ritual with spiritual dryness. True, ritual and liturgy can be dead
even using the terms can raise hackles
but only when the significance and power of those rituals are forgotten. Spiritual death is not a property of ritual itself. To the contrary, ritual has always been and will always be a means of securing for future generations the power and reality of the gospel. (Peter Enns, Exodus, page 262). — Peter Enns

For the rest of my life, I'll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name. — Sylvain Reynard

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams} — Abigail Adams

Michael Harvey should be read by all. — John Grisham

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production. — Adolf Galland

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought. — Ian Rankin

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. — Charlotte Eriksson

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. — Alfred De Vigny

Yes, he was leaving, but he'd told her repeatedly that they would find a way to make it work. and yes, it was true that they didn't know each other well, but considering the short time they'd been together, he'd learned enough to know that he could love her forever. all they needed was a chance. — Nicholas Sparks

Angel ... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.'
-Patch (PG 262) — Becca Fitzpatrick

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth cultivated. — Henry David Thoreau

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [ ... ] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262) — Raymond Chandler

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings. — William James

And I wonder if people do this all the time: fall for people because of their ability to pick getaway cars; or fall for people because of the way they look when they think nobody is watching; or fall for people because of the things they say, or the way they look at them, or the things they give up, or the things they cannot do.
-Alina Chase (pg 262) — Megan Miranda

Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers. — Melina Marchetta

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions. — Lorii Myers

Year hasn't been observed since the time of the Temple (The Second Jewish Book of Why, p. 262). The Sabbath year is still observed in some form, but only in Israel (ibid., p. 320). DAY 44 I first learned about the "domino" phrase in the book Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench, a very interesting look at fundamentalism. The history of literalism is actually — A. J. Jacobs

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class. — Marcy Kaptur

Hot hearts are wont to overpower cold minds — Ben Kane

No m'lord. It wouldn't be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence. — Gary Edward Gedall

In this Postscript I distinguish references back to the revised text of this book by placing these in italics thus (262), from references to the works of other authors under discussion, which are thus (p. 162). account — E.P. Thompson

Hephzibah normally left the dishes until the next day. Piled up in the sink so that it was near impossible to fill a kettle. And what the sink wouldn't take would stay on the kitchen table. Treslove liked that about her. She didn't believe they had to clean up after every excess. There wasn't a price to pay for pleasure. — Howard Jacobson

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. — Andre Luiz Moreira

Paralympics ... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch. — Doug Stanhope

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. — Adolf Galland

Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'
(page 262) — Elmore Leonard

262."Be square but do not cut; be sharp but do not stab; be straight forward but do not unrestrained; be bright but do not dazzle. — Lao-Tzu

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around. — Gertrude Stein

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home. — Boris Johnson