Gesetzte Markierung Quotes & Sayings

Attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband. — V.S. Naipaul

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer. — Mark Dever

WHEN RELIGION CANNOT KNEEL Aristotle said democracy would only work in a culture already committed to virtue. There is no communal myth left that teaches us the essentially tragic nature of human life; there is no vision that proclaims the primacy of the common good; there is no transcendent image that makes human virtue a divine reflection. There is No One to reflect and No One to love and serve. I do not want to belong to a religion that cannot kneel. I do not want to live in a world where there is No One to adore. It is a lonely and labored world if I am its only center. My life is too short to discover wisdom on my own, to identify and properly name my own self-importance, to learn how to love if I have to start at zero. — Richard Rohr

Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush. — Barack Obama

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks. — Christy Mathewson

John cursed himself. Or rather, he
cursed the past version of himself for so
thoughtlessly screwing over the current
version of himself. — David Wong

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves. — Hanna Rosin

The mile has a classic symmetry ... It's a play in four acts. — John Landy

I don't know," said the papa. "We shall just have to keep on and see. Perhaps when they meet the Prince and Princess we shall find out. I don't suppose a boy would fall in love with a boy." "No," said the niece; "but he might want to go off with him and have fun, or something." "That's true," said the papa. "We've got to all watch out. — William Dean Howells

A poor, deceived, and half-delirious girl, who, exclaiming that she was the most worthless thing alive or dead, attempted to cast herself into the fire amid all that wrecked and broken trumpery of the world. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill , Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known. — Asger Jorn

There are ... for us no instincts - we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training - belonging to man's learned behavior. — John B. Watson

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband. — Treat Williams