Miopia Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

But God, the ruler of the universe, takes his stand upon it, regulating it and directing everything in a saving manner by the helm of his wisdom, using, in truth, neither hands nor feet, nor any other part whatever such as belongs to created objects. — Philo Of Alexandria

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world? — Bill McKibben

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much. — James Patterson

Come here till I comb your hair, said Grandma. Look at that mop, it won't lie down. You didn't get that hair from my side of the family. That's that North of Ireland hair you got from your father. That's the kind of hair you see on Presbyterians. If your mother had married a proper decent Limerickman you wouldn't have this standing up, North of Ireland, Presbyterian hair. — Frank McCourt

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?' — Robert Winston

You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. — Helen Fisher

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. — C.S. Lewis

We're no longer slaves to fear. That doesn't mean we're emotionless now, or never face fear, it just means we don't have to obey it. — Jeremy Riddle

The Lord may not give gold, but he will give grace: he may not give gain, but he will give grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals. — John Leguizamo

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all. — Miranda July

Once the pain threshold has been crossed, the spirit grows strong. Everyday desires become meaningless, and man is purified. Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
Aleph — Paulo Coelho

His dreams were full of bloodshed. He ran and ran, but wherever he fled, his mother's people and his father's people were in battle with each other. And then Shaftali and Sainnaite both turned on him crying out "No one of your heritage will ever cook for us!"
"So what?" he replied, absurdly. "At the rate you're killing each other, there soon will be no one to cook for! — Laurie J. Marks

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? — Harry S. Truman