Nebensatz Quotes & Sayings

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time. — Vance Havner

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal. — Karen Armstrong

You can't keep a squirrel on the ground. — Mary Lasswell

For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how we relate to what happens. — Lama Surya Das

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. — George Washington

We prefer simple lies to complex truths. — Gunther Boccius

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself ... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country. — Gaetano Mosca

If you're worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They'd say the caribou would be extinct. You've got to shake them away with a stick. They're all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there. — George H. W. Bush

Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city. — Vaginal Davis

If we blind them to The Adversary - decrease their desire for The Desire - while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. — Geoffrey Wood