Adjuration Define Quotes & Sayings

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. — James L. Buckley

A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them. — James Edwin Gunn

There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe takes an interest in me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward me after death; my current beliefs, drawn from scripture, will remain the best statement of the truth until the end of the world; everyone who disagrees with me will spend eternity in hell ... . — Sam Harris

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy. — Virginia Woolf

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start. — Matt McGorry

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny. — Henry Parry Liddon

Family. It was just a word ... Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant ... It was a thing everyone had an opinion about - that it was all you had when you didn't have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn't more reliable than marriages or friendships ... maybe less ... The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them. — Deanna Raybourn

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind. — Baha'u'llah

The environment itself was culturally a vacuum, in that there was simply nothing that would inspire me in the arts. But my parents were always very supportive of anything that I explored or wanted to do. — Paul Smith