Reformations Quotes & Sayings

exasperated. 'That's the last thing I'd do. If you don't — Cathy Cassidy

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics. — Che Guevara

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis. — Thomas Jefferson

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted. — Hannah More

A woman's power of imitation and adaptation make her capable of confronting you with your own arguments after even the briefest acquaintance: how much more so if a state of intimacy exists. — Anthony Powell

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either. — Charles Caleb Colton

In religious affairs, history shows us that churches have their palmy days, and then again their times of drought. The Universal Church has been thus circumstanced; it has had its Pentecosts, its Reformations, its revivals; and between these there have been sorrowful pauses, in which there was much more cause for lamentation than for rejoicing, and the Miserere was more suitable than the Hallelujah. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil. — Walter Wink

And once I am there, I shall seek out Watson, if he still lives - and I fancy he does. It is irrational, I acknowledge, and yet I am certain that I would know, somehow, had Watson passed beyond the veil. — Neil Gaiman

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. — Edmund Burke

I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done. — Thomas Paine

Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations. — Sue Monk Kidd

Not my circus. Not my monkeys. — Will Freshwater

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. — Thomas Jefferson

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time. — Lydia M. Child

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage. — Justin Hayward