Prefiguring Bible Quotes & Sayings

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making. — Joseph J. Ellis

She held out her hand. "What is it you want?" he rumbled. "Your ring." He frowned. "And if I'm not inclined to give it?" "Then you'll have a few silent days to look forward to." She lifted her eyebrows in challenge. "And you know how good I am at that." He muttered under his breath as he pulled off the ring and handed it to her. — Lynn Kurland

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. — Roger Ebert

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger — Brian Andreas

It's either food or blood, Ethan.And given thats it's just me and you in this car right now, food would be considerably less complicated, don't you think? — Chloe Neill

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. — Richard Powers

But a good wife - a good unworldly woman - may really help a man, and keep him more independent. — George Eliot

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld. — Edward Hirsch

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman. — Demi Lovato

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything. — Gary Inbinder

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger. — Lysa TerKeurst

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is found to praise and honour and glory. — Jonathan Edwards

The weather's cold. My club's bad. My knee hurts. I can't putt no more. I'm off my diet. My wife is nagging me. Other than that, everything's great. — Don Zimmer