Ponderings And Wanderings Quotes & Sayings

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. — Hans Frank

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy. — Cynthia P. Schneider

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it ... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together. — Andre Agassi

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. — Thomas Moore

It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over His head, after all. What is often overlooked, however, is that it is precisely because of their allegiance to that king - Jesus - that Rome persecuted His followers.
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus' followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, "We have no king but Caesar," the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, "We have no king but Jesus! — Christopher Gorton

Crunches are an exercise where you lie on your back and angrily try to head-butt your crotch. — Matthew Inman

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. — Adrienne Rich