Graveclothes Quotes & Sayings

If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death. — Dov Davidoff

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. — Gregory Bateson

You can't change the world without getting your hands dirty. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that. — Nelson Peltz

Here's to the health of my beloved Critias ! — Theramenes

In order to explain historically how all the early Christians came to the belief they held, that Jesus had been raised, we have to say at least this: that the tomb was empty, except for some graveclothes, and that they really did see and talk with someone who gave every appearance of being a solidly physical Jesus, though a Jesus who was strangely changed, more strangely than they were able fully to describe. Both the meetings and the empty tomb are therefore necessary if we are to explain the rise of the belief and the writing of the stories as we have them. Neither by itself was sufficient; put them together, though, and they provide a complete and coherent explanation for the rise of the early Christian belief. Is — N. T. Wright

The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically. — Eugene B. Sledge

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. — Euripides

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been. — Stephen King

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion. — Susan Block

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi. — John Lewis

We can only hope that our little step helps the next attempt get closer to divine. That someday humanity becomes something better than itself. — Kevin Emerson

Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes. — James Joyce

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality. — Lawrence Kasdan

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers. — Daniel Woodrell

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that. — Rajon Rondo

No one wants to get hurt."
" Well, maybe not, but sometime's it's worth it. — Robyn Schneider