Distaffe Quotes & Sayings

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united. — Ahmed Zewail

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that. — Andrea Arnold

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it
't was no matter what he said. — Lord Byron

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions. — Sydney J. Harris

We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five. — Ken Robinson

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record. — Eric Church

The house was heavy around him, the pressure of the past filling the rooms like odorless gas. — Annie Proulx

One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms. — Fernando J. Corbato

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God. — William Butler Yeats

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. 9 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. — Anonymous

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. — Alan Watts

If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor hot, he can be certain that he does not have faith. If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him? — Soren Kierkegaard

What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself. — Martina Navratilova

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. — Ian Fleming

The wretchedest shantytowners we'd seen yet, they were slumped in the ashes, arranged in postures of such listless torpor that for a moment I mistook even the ones who were sitting upright for dead. Their hair and bodies were blacked with ash and grease, and their faces so afflicted with pits and scars that I wondered if they were lepers. As — Ransom Riggs

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. — George Herbert