Jeroboam Quotes & Sayings

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. — Samuel Johnson

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water. — Vincent D'Onofrio

The small mound I have mentioned a while ago was once occupied by the Phenician city of Laish. A party of filibusters from Zorah and Eschol captured the place, and lived there in a free and easy way, worshiping gods of their own manufacture and stealing idols from their neighbors whenever they wore their own out. Jeroboam set up a golden calf here to fascinate his people and keep them from making dangerous trips to Jerusalem to worship, which might result in a return to their rightful allegiance. With all respect for those ancient Israelites, I can not overlook the fact that they were not always virtuous enough to withstand the seductions of a golden calf. Human nature has not changed much since then. — Mark Twain

Which transcended anything they had ever known. — Max Hastings

Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal. — Cynthia Heimel

A people group made up mostly of the tribe of Judah, but also Benjamin, and the Levites as well as a remnant that fled the idolatry that Jeroboam imposed on the Northern Kingdom.[20] During the time of Christ, the term Jew was a generic term for those who had returned from Babylonian exile, who were worshiping the God of Israel as either ethnic Jews or those by formal halachic (according to Rabbinical, and not Biblical) conversion to the religion of Judaism as evidenced by baptism and circumcision — Tyler Dawn Rosenquist

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. — Mark Twain

A strong soul reaches anyplace, anytime; body fails to restrain it. And thus, perhaps soulmates are formed — Munia Khan

It makes a difference whether Moses or Jeroboam writes the history curriculum. — Douglas Wilson

Language is how we hack other people's brains. It's how we make them see things the way we want them to see them. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The only mistake when it comes to love, is not going for it. — Michelle A. Valentine

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. — Helen Dunmore

Make your home God's home and there will be light, love and abundance — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married. — Louis Auchincloss

I've always thought there was something so incredibly sexy about a wedding ring on a man's finger. It tells the world he has pledged himself to someone and isn't afraid to say so. Everyone you meet will know you're taken. I like that.
Then I'll never take it off. — Marie Force