Parthenos In Greek Quotes & Sayings

Good news arrives with TV cameras and big, brightly painted vans. Bad news arrives quietly, in dark sedans with black windows. — Delilah S. Dawson

When you really love someone your heart might always beat for them. Just because that is so, it doesn't mean that they will always dance for you. — Alexandra Elle

Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside. — Jay McInerney

The writers of Luke and Matthew, for instance, in seeking to make the life of Jesus conform to Old Testament prophecy, insist that Mary conceived as a virgin (Greek parthenos), harking to the Greek rendering of Isaiah 7:14. Unfortunately for fanciers of Mary's virginity, the Hebrew word alma (for which parthenos is an erroneous translation) simply means "young woman," without any implication of virginity. It seems all but certain that the Christian dogma of the virgin birth, and much of the church's resulting anxiety about sex, was the — Sam Harris

All little creatures are beautiful ... every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter. — Brian Jacques

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you. — Crystal Woods

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with. — George Ade

It means that if I want to get lucky with you, I should just take the risk and tell you what's on my mind, because failing would be worse than never trying. — Elle Casey

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much. — Zach Johnson

Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet. — Sarah Dessen

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. — John Dryden

The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession of brilliant phrases, book titles, dying cadences that breathed life, pure alertness, along the spine. — Ian McEwan