Hearers Mean Quotes & Sayings

Twenties, served as his judge in 1937 and even denounced a — Simon Sebag Montefiore

A text cannot mean what it could never have meant for its original readers/hearers. — Gordon D. Fee

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support. — Bonnie St. John

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up. — Ilona Andrews

The difference between theism and new atheist science is the difference between mystery and certainty. Certainty is a relic, an atavism, a husk we ought to have outgrown. Mystery is openness to possibility, even at the scale now implied by physics and cosmology. The primordial human tropism toward mystery may well have provided the impetus for all that we have learned. — Marilynne Robinson

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you. — Kiera Cass

Wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you. — James A. Michener

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less. — Warren Beatty

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance. — Greg Rucka

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves. — Aristotle.

Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white. — Jodi Picoult

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes. — Timothy Griffin

If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit. — Maximus The Confessor

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives. — George Verwer

When you release a trauma on one level of your energetic being, you will experience relief on all other levels simultaneously. — Dashama Konah Gordon

All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he'd ever witnessed waking - the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world. — Denis Johnson

Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes. — Joel Osteen