642 Things Quotes & Sayings

When shall I be past these soul-tormenting fears, and cares, and griefs, and passions? When shall I be out of this frail, this corruptible, ruinous body; this soul-contradicting, insnaring, deceiving flesh? When shall I be out of this vain and vexatious world, whose pleasures are mere deluding dreams and shadowsl whose miseries are real, numerous, and uncessant? How long shall I see the church of Christ lie trodden under the feet of persecutors ; or else, as a ship in the hands of foolish guides, though the supreme Maker doth moderate all for the best? (642-3) — Richard Baxter

Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life. — Tessa Dare

But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something? ... Can he ever remain solitary with himself
and silent to his very soul! — Paul Valery

God made only water, but man made wine. — Victor Hugo

Some people will love my books, some people will hate them, and others will regard them with odd curiosity. Who do I cherish the most of these people? All of them ... Because they have given me their time and time is a precious and irreplaceable thing. — Ella Dominguez

Adolf Hitler declared war in 1941. By 1942, Allen Dulles was moved to Switzerland for the purpose of rounding up and importing German scientific "specialists" to the United States. Two years before the war ended (or its fate was decided), the United States was making arrangements for Nazi scientists, arms experts, to come to our democracy (for which the boys were fighting and dying at that moment).12 From 1945 until 1952, the U.S. military brought over 642 alien "specialists" and their families from Nazi Germany. They were known collectively by the code-name "Paperclip." German missile and rocket experts, munition makers, war experts were carefully selected and placed in aerospace programs and armament manufacturing.13 — Mae Brussell

That night, as he bounded up the steps and out of the church basement, nobody in the room could have imagined that they had just seen the man who, a decade from now, would become the first black president of the United States. NEW — Isabel Wilkerson

You just said it - you're back now. So how about you make it yourself? — Kate Forster

Resentment is like venom that continues to pour through your system, doing its poisonous damage long after being bitten by the snake. It's not the bite that kills you; it's the venom. — Wayne W. Dyer

When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly glamorous. I grew up in awe of her. — Emilia Fox

Anyone can plan but it takes someone who is agile to understand that their plan is not concrete. — C.J. Holt

Let me never become a slave to crowds. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.
ROBIN SHARMA The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Kindle Location 642) — Robin S. Sharma

I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked. — Craig Johnson