Swerdlick David Quotes & Sayings

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138) — Veronica Roth

When it comes to the New Testament, we can be confident we are reading from accurate sources, because we have so many ancient copies to compare. For many ancient texts there are only a handful of manuscripts in existence. We have only nine or ten good copies of Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars. The best-preserved, non-biblical ancient writing we have is Homer's Iliad, of which there are only 643 copies. Compare these numbers to the New Testament, which is based on nearly six thousand Greek manuscripts plus over nine thousand ancient copies in other languages. If that were not enough, even if all of these copies were lost, we could reconstruct all but eleven verses of the New Testament from ancient quotations of the Bible. — Douglas M. Beaumont

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. — Meriwether Lewis

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands. — Oprah Winfrey

He loved me. He was a complex person with layers of percolating emotions, some of them spiritual, some tortured in a more secular way, and he burned for me. This complicated flame of being was mine. — Miranda July

I want to believe that a voice for good will incessantly rise above the most bellicose volume that evil can produce. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. — Wendell Berry

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness
by making the ultimate escape from life.
No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. — Dag Hammarskjold

The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass. — H. P. Blavatsky

The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them. — Andy Andrews

nights?" Something unraveled in her heart, destroying the last of her defenses, the final shard of sanity she possessed. "Yes! It is, it is. — Eloisa James

Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental capacity. — Emma Paul

diphthongs. Avril — David Foster Wallace

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love. — Julian Barnes