Lauds Prayer Quotes & Sayings

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. — George Orwell

I do not relish leaving home, leaving my children, leaving the familiarity of my bed, my coffee maker, my slippers, but I do love hotels. — Nickolas Butler

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They fought for glory, but not for blood. — Cinda Williams Chima

I was a lieutenant in World War II. — John Eisenhower

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime. — Tony Benn

Time spent on solving a problem with the same level of thinking that created it is time well wasted — Sekoni Sullivan

This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover? — Colleen Hoover

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. — Bertrand Russell

Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; and compline at bedtime. — Barbara W. Tuchman

There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one we share. — Deborah Cameron

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape. — Jean Cocteau

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. — Timothy Ferriss

Bastien noticed that the two women hugged and touched and patted a lot. It was nice in one way, warm and affectionate, but he also felt a pinch of jealousy, wishing he was the recipient of some of those hugs, pats and touches. But Terri had been keeping her distance since Kate and Lucern had arrived. She'd even been avoiding eye contact, and that troubled him. He wanted to put his arm around her and claim her as his own. She didn't seem to feel the same. — Lynsay Sands