Patristics Quotes & Sayings

I know - better than anyone - that once someone's made up her mind to leave you, there's nothing you can do to make her stay. — Terra Elan McVoy

But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing — John Damascene

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. — Joaquin Phoenix

This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person. — William O. Douglas

Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also. — Eusebius

Definitely not - you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick. — Brandon Sanderson

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts. — Kevin Spacey

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. — Thomas Jefferson

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother. — Cyprian

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality, — T. J. Stiles

She expected a precise, controlled kiss to calmly show her mother they were lovers. Instead she got hot testosterone and raw sexual energy. She got warm lips melded over hers. His teeth nipped. His tongue burrowed inside and plunged in and out with sheer command, bending her back over his arm to take every last drop of her resolve. — Jennifer Probst

Solitude is never lonely. It is rather a sanctuary where one learns to draw wisdom from the company of self. — Zohreh Ghahremani

I'm tired of living in a police state. — L. Neil Smith