Foreclosing A Mechanics Quotes & Sayings

Genesis 1 is an account of the nature of the world and its origins as its author perceived it. Moreover, his culturally conditioned perceptions and beliefs about the world and its origin were then projected onto the god of his composition so that, in turn, it is God who then creates the world that he himself, our author, perceived and experienced. These — Steven Dimattei

Don't live in the past - you will know what you've lost but not what you've found? — Douglas Preston

It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes. — Marie Jenney Howe

It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny. — Max Lucado

Rather, very, little, pretty
these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then. — William Strunk Jr.

Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or "in" group. — Wendell Berry

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past. — Marlo Morgan

Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture. — Paramahansa Yogananda

He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor. — Dolly Parton

To be truly grateful for the kindness of other and to have those you love in your life is a great and powerful emotion. — John Patrick Hickey

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen — Jonathan Carroll

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling. — Mary Gaitskill

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland. — Ian Watson

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius. — Charlotte Bronte