Theocratic Republic Quotes & Sayings

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids. — Allyson Felix

It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. — Kristin Cashore

Struggles among Roman patricians, plebeians, and slaves produced a version of the chordal triad universalized around a notion of libertas. Different notes of the chord were dominant from the Republic to the Empire. The slave's point of view was made prominent in the figure of Epictetus, one of the few major Roman theorists born a slave. By the Middle Ages, freedom had attained a spiritual dimension but was still linked to the political. With medieval Christendom came the triumph of the sovereignal conception of freedom. That triumph coincided with theocratic societal decadence, the doctrine of heresy, the transformation of mass slavery into the political language of serfdom, and the introduction of the root word Slav to refer to serfs across Europe. Heretics privileged their personal freedom over sovereign orthodoxy. Being burned at the stake was a consequence. — Neil Roberts

Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like me can sleep comfortably in the open while a young boy gets all stiff and rheumatic over it."
Horace shrugged. "Be that as it may," he replied, "I'll still be glad to sleep in a bed tonight."
Actually, Halt felt the same way. But he wasn't going to let Horace no that. — John Flanagan

If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy! — Sunday Adelaja

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. — Simon Raven

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. — Rajneesh

You're an asshole."
"And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head. — Simone Elkeles

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear. — Les Wexner

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing. — Barbara Feldon

Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you. — Nutan Bajracharya

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq. — Paul Cellucci

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. — Joyce Carol Oates

We all have banker problems. We all have issues. — Karolyn Grimes

Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little. — Jean De La Bruyere