Supralapsarian Predestination Quotes & Sayings

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart. — Cassandra Clare

Why did math matter so much? Some reasons were practical: More and more jobs required familiarity with probability, statistics, and geometry. The other reason was that math was not just math. Math is a language of logic. It is a disciplined, organized way of thinking. There is a right answer; there are rules that must be followed. More than any other subject, math is rigor distilled. Mastering the language of logic helps to embed higher-order habits in kids' minds: the ability to reason, for example, to detect patterns and to make informed guesses. Those kinds of skills had rising value in a — Amanda Ripley

William the Testy. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so beset by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one could scarce walk at large without the risk of letting off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap. In a little while the blessings of innumerable laws became apparent; a class of men arose to expound and confound them. Petty courts were instituted to take cognizance of petty offences, pettifoggers began to abound, and the community was soon set together by the ears. — Washington Irving

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation. — Boaz Lavie

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that. — Wendy Davis

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life. — Frances Beinecke

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me. — Duncan Roy

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true. — Joseph Jackson

Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are! — B.A. Gabrielle

Failure is not the final fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be. — John Kendrick Bangs

Good moral character is the first essential in a man. — George Washington

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well. — Serj Tankian

The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult. — Ron Baratono