Efficias Quotes & Sayings

When we saw her again her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows - sort of tragic and serene. — William Faulkner

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women — John Wayne

In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it. — Bryan Stevenson

... difficile est longum subito deponere amoren, difficile est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias ... ... it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow ... — Anonymous

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. — Plutarch

Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market. — Thomas Frank

To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin ... and I've always known where it will end. — D.J. MacHale

hand dies within a week." "No, no, if you hold it, you — Anthony Doerr

The Puritans made me aware that all theology is also spirituality. — J.I. Packer

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises. — Barry Eichengreen

God is interested in preserving the resources of His Kingdom. — Sunday Adelaja

I had not gone to bed; I sat reading by a couple of candles. There was a roomful of old books at Bly - last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth. — Henry James

If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety? — Zach Braff