Scrittura Privata Quotes & Sayings

The Bible is not, in other words, simply a list of true doctrines or a collection of proper moral commands - though it includes plenty of both. The Bible is not simply the record of what various people thought as they struggled to know God and follow him, though it is that as well. It is not simply the record of past revelations, as though what mattered were to study such things in the hopes that one might have one for oneself. It is the book whose whole narrative is about new creation, that is, about resurrection, so that when each of the gospels ends with the raising of Jesus from the dead, and when Revelation ends with new heavens and new earth populated by God's people risen from the dead, this should come not as a surprise but as the ultimate fulfillment of what the story had been about all along. — N. T. Wright

And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalist had nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already. — Robert Galbraith

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — Warren Buffett

By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls. — Jessica Valenti

Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We're trapped — Liu Cixin

You don't even know what your mere presence does to me. You're my sanity. — Linda Kage

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word. — Louis Pasteur

So there's a membrane of - of living tissue around that star," I say, trying to wrap my head around the concept. "A, a meat balloon. Around the whole damn star. — Peter Watts

I turned towards the garden when the door had closed on her. Miss Halcombe was standing with her hat in her hand, and her shawl over her arm, by the large window that led out to the lawn, and was looking at me attentively. — Wilkie Collins

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. — Charles De Gaulle

My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing. — Jill Scott