Mattathias Hasmonean Quotes & Sayings

Can I liberate myself from all my concerns and enter the mystery? — Michel De Salzmann

Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles. — Maya Rodale

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it — Deepak Chopra

and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had never seen a hawk in my life. — Helen Macdonald

If one of the guys got a hangnail, the rest of them would rally around staring balefully at the unfortunate who wielded the cuticle clippers until it was successfully clipped out. — Kristen Ashley

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work. — LeBron James

Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They rolled and whirled in misshapen circles on the counter surface. "Here are our options."
My ears rang. "We have more than one?"
"Three, precisely," Cole said. He pointed to each in turn. "That one makes you a wolf. That one makes me a wolf. That one gives us both seizures. — Maggie Stiefvater

This queer crotchet [of Hamilton's] that algebra is the science of pure time has attracted many philosophers, and quite recently it has been exhumed and solemnly dissected by owlish metaphysicians seeking the philosopher's stone in the gall bladder of mathematics. — Eric Temple Bell

The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,
once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects
but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Of course," said Guan Yifan. "The great universe isn't going to fail to collapse because it misses five kilograms." He had another thought that he did not voice: Perhaps the great universe really would fail to collapse because it lacked a single atom's mass. The precision of Nature can sometimes exceed the imagination. For instance, life itself required the precise collaboration of various universal constants within a billion-billionth of a certain range. — Liu Cixin

Well, Drew. Makes you feel any better. There's one thing that Kelly and this title have in common. They'll never be seen with you. — Edge

You know you are with true friends when they lift, encourage, correct, and then spur you on. — Lisa Bevere

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. — William James

To stop himself from reaching out, he folded his arms over his chest, his shirt straining. Her gaze fell, locking on his left bicep. Damn. If she wanted him the way he wanted her, they were going to be in trouble. Lots and lots of pleasurable, oh, so wrong trouble. Again — Gena Showalter

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer. — Carrie Underwood