Gfallsnationalbank Quotes & Sayings

The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life. — John Robinson

When Harper was in among the stones she could see brass plaques screwed into the towering pillars of granite. One listed the names of seventeen boys who had died in the mud of eastern France during the First World War. Another listed the names of thirty-four boys who had died on the beaches of western France during the Second. Harper thought all tombstones should be this size, that the small blocks to be found in most graveyards did not even begin to express the sickening enormity of losing a virgin son, thousands of miles away, in the muck and cold. You needed something so big you felt it might topple over and crush you. — Joe Hill

It is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat — Chris Huhne

In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect. — Thomas Aquinas

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs. — Mick Jagger

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them. — Les Greenberg

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons. — Edward Gibbon

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them. — Laura Marling

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through. — Margaret Atwood

The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. — Henry Fuseli

Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live — Gayle Forman

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. — John Desmond Bernal