Anonymous Authorship Quotes & Sayings

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems. — Dejan Stojanovic

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle

God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love', — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of Christianity, able to trace its gradual authorship and formation, nonetheless typically find themselves describing this development as an anonymous process, a spontaneous evolution accomplished by the nameless and faceless members of ancient communities of faith ... But when it comes to the origin of the New Testament, we ought to do better, and we can. — Jason D. BeDuhn

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect. — Robert Penn Warren

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain. — James Otis

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Half of life - the interesting half of life - we don't have a name for. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The earliest discussion of the authorship of Luke and Acts is from Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons in Gaul, writing in the late second century. He attributes the books to Luke, the coworker of Paul, and notes that the occurrence of the first-person narrative ("we") throughout the later chapters of Acts (starting at 16:10) indicates that the author of Acts was a companion of Paul and present with him on these occasions. These "we" passages in Acts are the key to the authorship of both Acts and the Gospel of Luke. — Anonymous

I don't like happy stuff. I'm not funny. — Sondra Radvanovsky

Khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'. — Cassandra Clare