Babylonish Captivity Quotes & Sayings

The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense. — Paul Lansky

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out. — Robert Genn

How can you stand touching her?" my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. "Doesn't that hurt?"
I seized on the change of topic. "These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current."
Gretchen's gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. "Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling
glove for his - "
"Gretchen!" my father cut her off.
My cheeks felt hot. Don't say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter.
"He has a natural immunity," I gritted out. — Jeaniene Frost

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity. — Annie Besant

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. — Ogden Nash

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him. — Scottie Pippen

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies. — Keith Olbermann

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther

It's more like winning than winning itself, and everyone knows you are not a real player until you secretly prefer losing. — Lawrence Osborne

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing. — Solomon Burke

She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. — Robert Goolrick

Inches make a champion. — Vince Lombardi

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist. — Candace Bushnell