Interdicts Middle Ages Quotes & Sayings

I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker. And one of the crucial things he brings to me, is that the encounter with another being is an ... occasion in which you can, to the best of your ability, honour the other person as being someone sent to you by God. — Marilynne Robinson

As far as my own sexual orientation, I'm only seventeen years old and as of right now, I'm straight, but who knows what's to come? — Judith E. Snow

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance. — Daphne Oz

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it. — Mick Jagger

Marvellous mercies and infinite love. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens. — William Carlos Williams

I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it. — Milton Friedman

If he knew, if he was told in so many words, he would have to do the conventional thing, he would have to express the conventional shock and horror. But knowing without analyzing, knowing in a place that went deeper than words, he could see it, know it, accept it. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. — Steve Lacy

You only fail if you quit... — Ginger Gelsheimer

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. — Laurence Sterne

God should get a lot more glory for things than we give him. — Jefferson Bethke

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake ... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery. — Maurice Strong

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name. — John Green