Bible Debts Quotes & Sayings

The surest poison is time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight. — Peter Straub

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time. — Chris Thile

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We must sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid. — Nelson Mandela

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons - you really can choose to stop. — Nigel Warburton

Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another — Mike Cohn

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. — Paul Claudel

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story. — Lucia Puenzo

It's a well-known fact. It's well known at the organic level, like a lot of other well-known facts which overrule the observations of the senses. This is because if people went around noticing everything that was going on all the time, no one would ever get anything done.* — Terry Pratchett

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things. — Epictetus

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts. — Blake Mycoskie