Patronal Quotes & Sayings

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia. — Jean Pigozzi

took the bottle of Texas Driver out — Stephen King

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. — Chester Brown

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. — Lysa TerKeurst

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race. — Donald Antrim

Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly. — Madeleine Albright

How then, in the time that followed, did I become someone I didn't know? — Paul Lisicky

I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."
Carson said, "Lucky for you, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I will acknowledge you really do an exhaustive job cleaning the bedroom. — Dean Koontz

After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking. — James Dashner

Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books. — Julian The Apostate

Trade and religion were thus inextricably combined in Mecca. The pilgrimage to Mecca was the climax of the suq cycle, and the Quraysh reconstructed the cult and architecture of the sanctuary so that it became a spiritual center for all the Arab tribes. Even though the Bedouin were not much interested in the gods, each tribe had its own presiding deity, usually represented by a stone effigy. The Quraysh collected the totems of the tribes that belonged to their confederacy and installed them in the Haram so that the tribesmen could only worship their patronal deities when they visited Mecca. The sanctity of the Kabah was thus essential to the success and survival of the Quraysh, and their competitors understood this. — Karen Armstrong