Didomi Quotes & Sayings

Themselves: "Give back (apodidomi) to Caesar the property that belongs to Caesar ... " The verb apodidomi, often translated as "render unto," is actually a compound word: apo is a preposition that in this case means "back again"; didomi is a verb meaning "to give." Apodidomi is used specifically when paying someone back property to which he is entitled; the word implies that the person receiving payment is the rightful owner of the thing being paid. — Reza Aslan

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating. — Alexandra Robbins

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan. — Christine Quinn

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. — Anna Camp

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? — Robert M. Pirsig

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. — Peter F. Drucker

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that. — Erich Schiffmann

Faith is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer. — Eugene H. Peterson

In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle. — Catherine Drinker Bowen