Minervinis East Quotes & Sayings

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments ... [Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated. — Robert H. Goddard

When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news. — Joanne Froggatt

The great variety of moral qualities attributed to God by Scripture revolves particularly around two - holiness and love. These may be said in summary form to constitute the moral character of God — Thomas C. Oden

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war. — Lily Tomlin

It really so in your souls? Are you now henceforth dead to the world, and dead to sin, and quickened into the life of Christ? If you are so, then the text will bear to you a third and practical meaning, for it will not merely be true that your old man is condemned to die and a new nature is bestowed, but in your common actions you will try to show this by newness of actual conduct. Evils which tempted you at one time will be unable to beguile you now because you are dead to them: the charms of the painted face of the world will no longer attract your attention, for your eyes are blind to such deceitful beauties. You have obtained a new life which can only be satisfied by new delights, which can only be motivated by new purposes and constrained by new principles suitable to its own nature. This — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits. — Shane McAnally

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. — David Mitchell

There are many levels of truth. — Alan Dershowitz

All things that seem good and evil are the opposite ends of one line, and it is difficult to say where evil ends and good begins, for these are comparative terms. A lesser good would seem evil when compared with a greater good, and the lesser evil in comparison with the greater evil would appear good. If there were no evil, good would not have been valued. Without injustice, justice would not have been appreciated. Therefore the whole of life's joy is expressed in duality. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The landscape here was strange. It was some type of forest, with giant vines that grew into spirals, round and round, growing up fifty metres toward the sky. They were massive. Some were fifteen metres across, narrowing as they rose. — Stephan Von Clinkerhoffen

When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing. — Matthew Pearl

Levi's kisses were all taking.Like he was drawing something out of her with soft little jabs of his chin.
She brought her fingers up to his hair, and she couldn't open her eyes. — Rainbow Rowell

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it. — Rufus Wainwright

A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being. — Thomas Moore