Kebra Nagast Quotes & Sayings

You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile. — Daniel Clowes

As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness. — J. Budziszewski

And you know what? You don't get to say it's not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be - this is mine. I'm supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it. — Becky Albertalli

Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson. — Cherie Carter-Scott

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment). — Dada Bhagwan

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13 — Randall Styers

It is evident that it is the belief of Christian people in this country and in all other enlightened portions of the world that as a nation, we have passed through a severe ordeal - that severe judgments have been poured out upon us on account of the manner in which a poor, oppressed race was treated in this country. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it - so does God. Think you need it - God knows it ... The principles of Jesus Christ create your prosperity. — Mike Murdock

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. — Michael J. Fox

The letters from his father continued to arrive, once, sometimes twice a week. Wylan didn't know what to make of them. Were they threats? Taunts? He stashed them in a stack beneath his mattress, and sometimes at night he thought he could feel the ink bleeding through the pages, up through the mattress and into his heart like dark poison. — Leigh Bardugo

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college. — Nancy Pelosi

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. — Roger Mudd

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy. — Mike Figgis

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived. — James Frey

But you know what their real problem with me was? I never wanted to be one of them. That's what bothers bullies the most. — Michelle Hodkin