Divine Settlement Quotes & Sayings

In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all. — Barack Obama

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue. — John Diamond

In a shipboard lecture en route to America, John Winthrop, Massachusetts' first governor, called the soon-to-be-founded settlement "a city on a hill," a model of God's ultimate plan for humanity. Elaborated by a succession of ministers, this sense of divine purpose arose from a particular reading of sacred history: God had chosen the Puritans to create in America a New Zion, as He had once chosen the Jews in ancient times. Sometimes reformulated in secular language, this deep-seated belief in America's unique role in history would long survive. — Paul S. Boyer

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports. — Bradley James

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain. — Andrew Garfield

One. And I hid it. And Mia Turner found it because they — Chelsea Cain

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. — Anatole France

There's too many interesting women I have ... not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed. — Dustin Hoffman

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it. — Ryan McGinley

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking. — Rene Redzepi

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade. — John Catsimatidis

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon

I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers. — Lauren Conrad

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half. — Dane Cook

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold. — Sherry Turkle

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble. — Alan Rickman