Completing Marathon Quotes & Sayings

We have noted thatthe two creation stories contained no pointers toward male "headship" in the sense that men or husbands are supposed to exercise authority or leadership over women or wives. But the audience of Genesis knew that patriarchy was a reality of life. Genesis here tells them how this came to be. Male authority or domination was not God's design but a consequence of a breakdown in relationship between humanity and God, between humanity and the animal world, and between human beings and one another. From now on, the Bible will assume the reality of patriarchy and of male headship, but it begins by noting that this came about only as a result of those various breakdowns of relationship. — John E. Goldingay

Incredible.

I smile, because it was. It absolutely was. — Colleen Hoover

Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it? — Panashe Chigumadzi

It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany's bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened. — Kimberly Novosel

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan

If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. Of course, Raphael might like that ... — Ilona Andrews

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. — Richard Bach

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! — Johnny Vegas

Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason. — Marie Kondo

I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there. — Kristanna Loken