Desiring The Kingdom Quotes & Sayings

A final point is the fact that discrimination based on presumed inborn and immutable characteristics (race) tends to be stronger and more inflexible than ethnic discrimination which is not based on 'racial' differences. Members of a presumed race cannot change their assumed inherited traits, while ethnic groups can change their culture and, ultimately, — Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice.
Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief.
"I used to play it when I was a kid," he burbled. It's boring. The dwarfs always win!"
Gilt and Vetinari shared a look. It said: While I loathe you and every aspect of your personal philosophy to a depth unplummable by any line, I'll credit you at least with not being Crispin Horsefry. — Terry Pratchett

I hope I become a better player day after day. This is one of my goals. I want to improve in every situation, but when you are playing along with top figures, it is a quality bonus and a bigger effort. Besides, the Spanish Liga also gives you the chance to progress and improve. — David Beckham

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. — Samuel Johnson

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. — Karl Jaspers

Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion. — John Haynes Holmes

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters. — Patrick Rothfuss

You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one. — C.S. Lewis

Meditation is the single most powerful tool to aid recovery from disease and lead to a life of maximum health — Ian Gawler

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson

The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins. — Jim Corbett

The trouble with records is that they're too short. — Mahalia Jackson

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.
Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter — Jana Oliver

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. — Wole Soyinka