Theophany In The Old Quotes & Sayings

Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty. — Erin Hunter

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble. — Kemmons Wilson

Dealing with a territorial ghost held all the appeal of embarking on a course of court-ordered therapy with an inveterate wife-beater. — Katherine Lampe

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions. — Baron De Montesquieu

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning. — Samuel Johnson

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990. — Arkady Volozh

I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption. — Gordon Gee

If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away. — Ben Roethlisberger

Do you ever feel like this? You're moving through the world, encountering people left and right but there's something not quite present - like you KNOW there's more to them, but it's like they're sleeping. Or closed. And so, somehow, you have to close a little, too. Then you meet someone who side-slides into the room of life and screams, "I'm alive! I'm present! Here I am!" And you think, "There you are! I KNEW you were alive. I've been looking everywhere for you!" And you can tell they're awake. And even if you ended up hating them later, you would love them because they weren't sleeping, and with them you didn't have to sleep, either. I'm pretty sure that's what makes real friends happen. — Jennifer DeLucy