Rassam Cylinder Quotes & Sayings

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why. — Dinah Maria Mulock

I started writing to save my life. — Joy Harjo

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it. — Ambrose Bierce

I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes. — Arash

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son. — Simon Soloveychik

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on. — Myrtle Reed

A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits. — Carl R. Rogers

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary. — Gore Vidal

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing. — Judy Gold

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass. — Mitch Albom

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. — Barry Unsworth

Is there such a thing as being too happy? — Shannon Mullen

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. — Glenn T. Seaborg