Doubl Quotes & Sayings

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart. — Thomas Jefferson

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York. — David Selby

So as not to risk appearing to introduce a duality, let alone a plurality, into the one and personal God, the Semitic texts and their commentators refuse to give the right answer by stating that God, being "all-powerful," "doeth what He wills"; we find this argument in Isaiah, Job and Saint Paul, as well as in the Koran. It is a doubl-edged argument, yet for certain psychological reasons it was efficacious for three or four millennia, in the climate for which it was destined. - p98 — Frithjof Schuon

Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet. — Ross Macdonald

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this. — E.F. Schumacher

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself. — James Prescott Joule