Etymologies Define Quotes & Sayings

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions. — Bob Menendez

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. — Rihanna

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me. — Richard Rodriguez

If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text. — Eugene H. Peterson

building in there? Coffins. Lots and lots — Rhys Bowen

What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying." — Chris Hedges

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity. — Confucius

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. — Wade Clark Mackey

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind. — Sakyong Mipham

The heart has its own laws ... and the truth is ... the truth is that you are the law of mine. — Guy Gavriel Kay