Grunthor Ratchet Quotes & Sayings

The first kind is the worship of latreia, which we give to God, who alone is adorable by nature, and this worship is shown in several ways, and first by the worship of servants. All created things worship Him, as servants their master. "All things serve Thee," (Ps. 119.91) the psalm says. — John Of Damascus

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness. — Therese Of Lisieux

When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer. — Shirley Corder

Error is always talkative. — Oliver Goldsmith

You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the time you're shrinking. — Helen Dunmore

I became a writer in spite of my environments. — Robert E. Howard

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself. — Kevin Spacey

Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out. — Judd Gregg

It is certainly more creditable to cultivate the earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice, of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer. — Mary Shelley

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. — Gore Vidal

Being unable to retrace our steps in Time, we decided to move forward in Space. Shall we never be able to glide back up the stream of Time, and peep into the old home, and gaze on the old faces? Perhaps when the phonograph and the kinesigraph are perfected, and some future worker has solved the problem of colour photography, our descendants will be able to deceive themselves with something very like it: but it will be but a barren husk, a soulless phantasm and nothing more. "Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!" - Wordsworth Donisthorpe, inventor of the kinesigraph camera — Catherynne M Valente