Synoikismos Quotes & Sayings

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. — Jim Cantalupo

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed. — Thomas Adams

I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart. — Du Fu

Between you and me, it's nice to have it affirmed now and again. It's good to keep your skills up to par, don't you agree? — Ashlan Thomas

My own sex life is very monogamous and happy ... just a happy married sex life! — Tom Ford

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey

Even impaled on a spear, he was confident he could - suddenly he was impaled on a spear. — Ari Bach

I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. — Brandon Sanderson

There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick. — Alan Ryan

Many are still tested as was Abraham. They do not hear the voice of God speaking directly from the heavens, but he calls them by the teachings of his word and the events of his providence. They may be required to abandon a career that promises wealth and honor, to leave congenial and profitable associations [127] and separate from kindred, to enter upon what appears to be only a path of self-denial, hardship, and sacrifice. — Ellen G. White

I don't think you should limit what you read. — Nate Silver

Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there's nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash. — Diana Rowland

Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside. — Ludwig Von Mises

Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation. — Marthe Bibesco

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. — Billy Sheehan