Alkalay Last Name Quotes & Sayings

Remembering ... that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits. — Robinson Jeffers

Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had. — Tony Cascarino

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women. — Victor LaValle

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal. — John Steinbeck

Christ and His angels and His prophets forever labor to buoy up our spirits, steady our nerves, calm our hearts, send us forth with renewed strength and resolute hope. They wish all to know that "if God be for us, who can be against us?"7 In the world we shall have tribulation, but we are to be of good cheer. Christ has overcome the world.8 Through His suffering and His obedience He has earned and rightly bears the crown of "Prince of Peace.", Nov. 1996 — Jeffrey R. Holland

Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away. — Jessica Simpson

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do. — John Adams

Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself. — Barbara Kingsolver

The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry. — Dennis Prager

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people. — Frank Carson

It only fed my post office psychosis. Whenever I'm in one, and almost to the counter, I keep repeating to myself: 'Please don't put out the "Position Closed" sign; please don't put out the "Position Closed" sign; dear God, don't let him put out the sign; please, please, please, I'm almost to the counter! I made it! I finally made it! He didn't put out the . . . Wait, what's he reaching for? . . . Fuck! — Tim Dorsey

I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up. — Bill Jay