Indefens Vel Quotes & Sayings

The world is less violent than it has ever been. — Barack Obama

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. — Alfred Edersheim

37. On this point, and the whole paragraph, see especially Oliver O'Donovan, The Ways of Judgment (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). — J. Ross Wagner

I suppose the truth is that, yes, I'm not odd enough not to have done the things I've ended up doing with my life. — Julian Barnes

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. — Ron Eglash

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements. — Adam Smith

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. — H.P. Lovecraft

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good. — Brad Barkley

Don't call me a loser in front of my mom! — Forrest Griffin