Predestiny Religion Quotes & Sayings

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676.
The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea. — Isaac Newton

Find peace in knowing. — A.D. Posey

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5. — Roy Jones Jr.

Khaemwaset's eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its choked river growth, its darting, piping birds, its busy insects and occasionally its sleepy grinning crocodiles, was a wealth of rich black soil in which the fellahin were struggling, knee-deep, to strew the fresh seed. — Pauline Gedge

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey. — Alexa Vega

Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes. — Criss Jami

Every day is predetermined by God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves. — Catherynne M Valente