Cobwebbed Place Quotes & Sayings

the Code of Hammurabi of 1750 BC. Crafted to govern the First Babylonian Empire, it codified the supremacy of the rule of law. Its punishments may seem draconian today, but it was still original in putting forth the idea that no one, not even the ruler, was above the law. There was a limit on the power of the state; even on the king himself. — Kent Augustson

The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

The funny thing is that making a pilot is sort of an audition, at least for me. There's something psychological there, where you're sort of asking for the job while you're acting. And then when it's been picked up, it's a completely different psychological dynamic. — Justin Kirk

we cannot escape the things we must face. — Todd Hasak-Lowy

Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be. — Gillian Flynn

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it. — John Ruskin

Do not think that you first have to look at the total plan and progress of the world, if you are to know what actions will now make sense, and where they will lead! — Oswald Bayer

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. — Adam Sandler

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people. — Miranda Lambert

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone. — Jodi Picoult

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. — Alistair Cooke

Greatness is judged not by the negative things we say but the positive things we do". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he writes his own version of the story. Call me Queequeg the story begins, and he titles it A Whale. From the harpooner's point of view, Ishmael was a pedantic scholar who blew things out of proportion. Moby Dick wasn't to blame, he was a whale like any other. It was all a matter of an incompetent captain wanting to settle a personal score instead of filling barrels with oil. "What does it matter who tore his leg off?" writes Queequeg. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk? — Steve Vernon

No, but you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but ... I don't know ... a kind of woman's courage. — George R R Martin

Cork your pistol, city boy," she murmured. "Ice cream is for hangovers. If you drug me, I'll also cut your man bits off. I need to be consoled, not tapped on the shoulder as if you were tapping me into a WWE fight. — Kirsty Dallas