Claringbold Clare Quotes & Sayings

The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous. — Norman Anderson

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota) — Johannes Gouws

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch. — Lawrence Jackson

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field. — Jane Smiley

Homosexual practice is an example on a horizontal plane of our vertical rebellion against God. — Kevin DeYoung

Do you," he murmured, "do you have any - Smarties? You brought some once, I remember, in a tube with a lid on. They were small, and many-coloured - all different colors - and they tasted very good. — Amanda Hemingway

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest. — Maelle Gavet

Grey is the price
of neighboring with eagles, of knowing
a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen. — Denise Levertov

Stricken down with consumption in 1819, Keats, after weeks in bed, wrote to Fanny Brawne: "Now I have had opportunities of passing nights anxious and awake, I have found thoughts obtrude upon me.'If I should die,' said I to myself,'I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.'" "If I had had time" - this is the tragedy of all great men. Keats never wrote anything of importance after that; nevertheless, his friends are remembered because of him, and he has left behind him poems as immortal as English, and more perfect than Shakespeare.We — Will Durant

The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others. — Thiruvalluvar