Fourth Themes Quotes & Sayings

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town. — Stephen Vincent Benet

It wasn't that I didn't understand it, this jealousy, because I did. It's just that it was hard sometimes to watch a group of grown people act like seventh graders trying to sit next to the coolest kid at the lunch table. Honestly, it just made you feel sad because you always thought people would outgrow this, thought that adulthood would be different. And it wasn't. — Jennifer Close

To control the deaths of others - when, where, the craft of ensuring it was a cleanly sliced ending - that was possible. And in some strange way, such killing felt like controlling whatever remained of his own life. — Richard Flanagan

My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal. — Louise Nurding

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same. — Anne Frank

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. — James A. Garfield

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly. — Jarvis Cocker

The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity. — Albert M. Wolters

Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first. — Luigina Sgarro

I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus. — James Galway

Riemann concluded that electricity, magnetism, and gravity are caused by the crumpling of our three-dimensional universe in the unseen fourth dimension. Thus a "force" has no independent life of its own; it is only the apparent effect caused by the distortion of geometry. By introducing the fourth spatial dimension, Riemann accidentally stumbled on what would become one of the dominant themes in modern theoretical physics, that the laws of nature appear simple when expressed in higher-dimensional space. He then set about developing a mathematical language in which this idea could be expressed. — Michio Kaku

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. — A.W. Tozer

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment. — Jason Schwartzman

It's not a threat. It's simply fact. He is Greek and of a bloodline
nearly as old as yours. He is required to be what he was made to be
whether he wishes it or not. He swims against the current, Ari. He thinks
he can outrun his fate. He cannot. No one can. — Victoria Escobar

Your depth of commitment,
your quality of service,
the product of your devotion
these are the things that count in life. — Scott O'Grady

It may not be important how much you have, but it is important who you are in your heart. — Debasish Mridha