Alexander Schmorell Quotes & Sayings

Amel slashes at the consonants so that they hop about like naughty children caught inside the sentence. — Fredrik Backman

The writers of Luke and Matthew, for instance, in seeking to make the life of Jesus conform to Old Testament prophecy, insist that Mary conceived as a virgin (Greek parthenos), harking to the Greek rendering of Isaiah 7:14. Unfortunately for fanciers of Mary's virginity, the Hebrew word alma (for which parthenos is an erroneous translation) simply means "young woman," without any implication of virginity. It seems all but certain that the Christian dogma of the virgin birth, and much of the church's resulting anxiety about sex, was the — Sam Harris

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to. — Jim Henson

You have to be consistent and persistent and never give up. — Ehab Atalla

The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. We — Ursula K. Le Guin

Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So that now, if he sat looking down upon Grape Street, the letters and images encircled him. And it was while he sat here, scarcely moving, that he was in hell and no one knew it. At such times the future became so clear that it was as if he were remembering it, remembering it in place of the past which he could no longer describe. But there was in any case no future and no past, only the unspeakable misery of his own self. — Peter Ackroyd