Puzzlements Crossword Quotes & Sayings

When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect. — Samuel Rutherford

Love is not a higher quality than truth. — Rajneesh

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. — Henri Barbusse

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Close your eyes and let music set you free. — Charles Hart

I'm not about to suck your dick so you'll make a call for me."
"And I'm not making the call so you'll suck my dick. So, now that we've cleared that up, can you get on with it? — C.D. Reiss

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological. — Lynda Obst

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist — Jose Saramago

In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their overpowering strength; and I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the very inadequate securities which exist against tyranny. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity — Morgan Matson

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them. — Thich Nhat Hanh

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk. — Charles R. Cross