Bultmann History Quotes & Sayings

After leaving Egypt, Moses and his people endured a forty-year commute, starting with a truly epic crossing of the Red Sea (which made getting through the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour seem like traipsing across a country bridge in a sundress on a spring afternoon). — BikeSnobNYC

Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both. — Jon Richardson

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death. — William Gurnall

The problem with talent, though, is that in most cases the person can't control its amount or quality. You might find the amount isn't enough and you want to increase it, or you might try to be frugal you make it last longer, but in neither case do things work out easily. Talent has a mind of its own and wells up when it wants to, and once it dries up, that's it. — Haruki Murakami

The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events are connected by the succession of cause and effect ... This closedness means that the continuum of historical happenings cannot be rent by the interference of supernatural transcendent powers and that therefore there is no "miracle" in this sense of the word. — Rudolf Karl Bultmann

In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist. — John Joseph Adams

What Greenspan was saying, in other words, was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with bidding up to $100 million in share value some hot-air Internet stock, because the lack of that company's "physical value" (i.e., the actual money those three employees weren't earning) could be overcome by the inherent value of their "ideas." To say that this was a radical reinterpretation of the entire science of economics is an understatement - economists had never dared measure "value" except in terms of actual concrete production. It was equivalent to a chemist saying that concrete becomes gold when you paint it yellow. It was lunacy. — Matt Taibbi

And he cries and cries, cries for everything he has been, for everything he might have been, for every old hurt, for every old happiness, cries for the shame and joy of finally getting to be a child, with all of a child's whims and wants and insecurities, for the privilege of behaving badly and being forgiven, for the luxury of tenderness, of fondness, of being served a meal and being made to eat it, for the ability, at last, at last, of believing a parent's reassurances, of believing that to someone he is special despite all his mistakes and hatefulness, because of all his mistakes and hatefulness. — Hanya Yanagihara

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them. — Norman Schwarzkopf

If I were a wolf, I would howl. If I were a lion, I would oar. If we lived in the jungle, I would bring her a lion and a wolf to feast on. - Caleb — C.J. Roberts

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. — Tony Robbins

I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss. — Karen Marie Moning