Ptolemais In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. — Agatha Christie

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine

Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image. — Mike Donehey

Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for the living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone. — Fredrik Backman

We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful — Salman Ahmad

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things. — Cornel West

Did you know that life is kind of like school? So how about when you're all done with the school of life, — Shirley Bahlmann

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened. — Eoin Colfer

Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker. — Bill Jensen

The idea that Wisdom could be a divine hypostasis - an aspect of God that is a distinct being from God that nonetheless is itself God - is rooted in a fascinating passage of the Hebrew Bible, Proverbs 8. ... God made all things in his wisdom, so much so that Wisdom is seen as a co-creator of sorts. — Bart D. Ehrman

I know shit about sex that would make hookers blush, but I haven't had a lot of it that was memorable." His — Kit Rocha

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent. — Reinaldo Arenas

And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. — George W. Bush

Something was wrong with him - and down deep he'd known his whole life. Maybe the wards had even said something. (You are not right, boy.) Maybe the other children had. (What's wrong with you?) Maybe it had happened while he watched one child after another walk off with a family from the Eastern Villages, with a merchant or a farmer. (You know no one will ever take you, right?) Maybe he'd even said it to himself. — Anne Ursu