Agros Quotes & Sayings

The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women. — Evan Osnos

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it. — Nicole Ari Parker

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was. — Jon Meacham

Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things. — Julia Marlowe

The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson

Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense. — Various

GARDENS OR FIELDS? Craig Blomberg points out that in Matthew's parable of the mustard seed, the sower sows his seed in a "field" (agros, Matt 13:31), while in Luke the sowing is in a "garden" (kepos, Luke 13:19). Jews never grew mustard plants in gardens, but always out on farms, while Greeks in the Mediterranean basin did the opposite. It appears that each gospel writer was changing the word that Jesus used in Mark - the word for "earth" or "ground" (ge, Mark 4:31) - for the sake of his hearers. There is a technical contradiction between the Matthean and Lukan terms, states Blomberg, "but not a material one. Luke changes the wording precisely so that his audience is not distracted from ... the lesson by puzzling over an ... improbable practice." The result is that Luke's audience "receives his teaching with the same impact as the original audience."22 — Timothy Keller

You make me so hot, Dawn. You warm me where I was cold once. It's like I'm melting right into you and want to get so damn close that we're one. — Laurann Dohner

Liberalism denies that there is any fixed or universal human nature. — Nancy Pearcey

Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It's what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy. — Lauren Handel Zander

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember. — Vera Nazarian

Paraphrasing..Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. — Naguib Mahfouz

I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video. — ASAP Rocky

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes — Marcus Terentius Varro

Don't tell me you're guarding the pearly gates. You never struck me as the angelic type.
(Meghan to Machina) — Julie Kagawa