Appartenance In English Quotes & Sayings

This version of the metaphysical argument consists of five steps: I. Proof of at least one unconditioned reality. II. Proof that unconditioned reality itself is the simplest possible reality. III. Proof that unconditioned reality itself is absolutely unique. IV. Proof that unconditioned reality itself is unrestricted. V. Proof that the one Unconditioned Reality is the continuous Creator of all else that is. — Robert J. Spitzer

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. — Elliott Erwitt

In a letter to Gouverneur Morris (February 27, 1802), he drops into the following gloomy forebodings: -

"Mine is an odd destiny. Perhaps no man in the United States has sacrificed or done more for the present Constitution than myself; and, contrary to all my anticipations of its fate, as you know, from the very beginning, I am still laboring to prop the frail and worthless fabric. Yet I have the murmurs of its friends no less than the curses of its foes for my reward. What can I do better than withdraw from the scene? Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me. — Charles A. Conant

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. — Albert Pike

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten! — Marc Ostrofsky

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. — Lawrence Wright

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings! — William Blake

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker

I realize that our world has come full circle. That, for all the pain and suffering, for all the lies and deception, that everything is as it should be. That the journey doesn't dictate the end. We do. Our choices determine the shape and path of our life. — M. Leighton

I am with the angels and just completely happy. — Bertrand Piccard

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there ... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College ... and she was delivering a speech there. — Al Michaels

ever since that time of unbound paranoia the one unbreakable law of the British secret services has been: Thou shalt not snoop on Number Ten. Because we are not in the business of generating policy - it's not a task for which agencies like ours are suited, and in those countries where spooks set policy, it always ends in tears. We vet politicians on the way up - that's an entirely different matter - but by the time they're moving into Number Ten they should already be above suspicion; if they aren't, we haven't been doing our job properly. And — Charles Stross

I'm gone for eight months ... If you feel that it's critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution. — Bob Davids

Only the pointless is worthwhile, all else is futile. — Giovanna Stefani