Bequeaths Quotes & Sayings

Now you must cast aside your laziness,"
my master said, "for he who rests on down
or under covers cannot come to fame;
and he who spends his life without renown
leaves such a vestige of himself on earth
as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water.
Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness
with spirit that can win all battles if
the body's heaviness does not deter it.
A longer ladder still is to be climbed;
it's not enough to have left them behind;
if you have understood, now profit from it. — Dante Alighieri

Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now. — Annmarie O'Connor

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener. — John Updike

Not only were people to be liberated from socio-political and economic oppression, but from theological oppression as well. — James A. Maxey

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — John Phillips Marquand

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses. — Florynce Kennedy

The physical pain from the bite of the belt is nothing, nothing compared to this devastation. — E.L. James

I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly! — John Lock

I do not suppose you have anything less potent?" "Certainly," he said. "I have the finest champagne, imported from France." "No doubt smuggled," Miss Hobson muttered. "Quite so," Vincent said agreeably. "This is Cornwall, after all. — Brooklyn Ann

The problem is not covenant theology in general, but covenantal nomism in particular. Wright's primary objection to the imputation of Christ's active obedience is that it's a category mistake: "If we use the language of the law-court, it make no sense whatever to say that the judge imputes, imparts, bequeaths, conveys or otherwise transfers his righteousness to either the plaintiff or the defendant. Righteousness is not an object, a substance or gas which can be passed across the courtroom ... To imagine the defendant somehow receiving the judge's righteousness is simply a category mistake." P.25 — Michael S. Horton

I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go. — Rosemarie DeWitt

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell. — Bear Grylls