Dataset Ck Quotes & Sayings

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind. — Mary Ritter Beard

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how imperfect and jagged our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly disarray, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, a poetic glamour. — Randolph Bourne

Would be to start local. Assuming — Peter James

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past. — Paloma Faith

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. — Bill Gates

I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what. — Samuel Rutherford

The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. — Marcus Aurelius

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else. — Stephanie Perkins

The story goes that the vicar looked up to see them bounding towards him down the aisle. "Oh Lord," he prayed in his terror. "turn these ravenous beasts into Christians."" "What happend?" I asked, agog. "Well," said Hobbes, "on hearing his words, the lions stopped, bowing their heads before the altar. The vicar rejoiced, certain a miracle had been granted to him, until he heard what they were saying." "The lions could speak? What did they say?" "For what we are about to receive ... — Wilkie Martin