Derling Quotes & Sayings

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey. — P.D. Ouspensky

Maybe we've already accepted that this is how we'll live and this is how we'll come to die. — Krista Ritchie

We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations by men, none of whom questioned the existing patriarchal structure of their societies or of their communities. While some Christ-believing women did challenge certain male-dominated aspects of their church gatherings (see 1 Cor 14:33b-36) it is quite unlikely that they questioned the patriarchal structure of their society, community, and church on a fundamental level. ~ Werner Kahl in Reading Other-Wise, p. 151 — Gerald O. West

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet. — Maria Sharapova

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling. — John Heywood

Rigor mortis was caused by a natural build-up of calcium in the muscles; living bodies used that calcium for various things, but in dead bodies it just built up and built up until the muscles grew rigid. In a day or so she'd be loose again from decay, but for now we had to knead the calcium out by hand, stroking and pressing and rubbing the flesh until it was soft and pliable. — Dan Wells

Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help! — Rick Riordan

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri