Demiurgic Quotes & Sayings

Speak your mind. No one else will. — Paul McElligott

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution. — Alan Cohen

I'll eat you up! — Maurice Sendak

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer. — Samuel Chadwick

However differently we spoke the language, as Spanish speakers, our close ties with Latin and Greek gave us a sense of superiority: we were the heirs to a noble linguistic past. English, in contrast, was the barbaric bastard son of Latin, constantly gloating over its discoveries: the demiurgic function of articles, inventing the world by enunciating it. — Valeria Luiselli

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity. — Mark Twain

Time they say is the best healer. Sad, but not true. With time, pain becomes you and you become pain. One forgets what life was without the pain. — Jayant Swamy

Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy. — Billy Graham

I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back. — Vin Diesel

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting. — Gloria Feldt

proceeding to the multitude of Gods is twofold, one of which converts and the other moves the Gods to the providence of inferior natures, poetry alfo defcribes twofold fpeeches* of Jupiter to the God^. According to the firft of thefe, the one and whole demiurgus of the univerfe is reprefented as communicating aa unmingled purity to the multitude of the Gods, and imparting to them powers feparate from all divifion about the world. Hence he orders all the Gods to defift from the war and the contrariety of mundane affairs* But, according to the fecond of thefe fpeeches, he excites them to the providence of fubordinate natures, and permits their divided progreflions into the univerfe, that they may not only be contained in one demiurgic intelleft, which, as the poet fays. — Anonymous

Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with. — Robert Haven Schauffler