Theophilos Iii Quotes & Sayings

It was a night replaying its corrosive recurrence on the road of our lives, on the road which was hungry for great transformations. — Ben Okri

It's very odd ... that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate
all those values shrink abominably. — William Dean Howells

For a Monarchy readily becomes a Tyranny, an Aristocracy an Oligarchy, while a Democracy tends to degenerate into Anarchy. So that if the founder of a State should establish any one of these three forms of Government, he establishes it for a short time only, since no precaution he may take can prevent it from sliding into its contrary, by reason of the close resemblance which, in this case, the virtue bears to the vice. — Niccolo Machiavelli

She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. — H.B. Paull

The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights. — John Shelby Spong

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is. — Cees Nooteboom

In the wild, cattle roamed as they pleased in herds with a complex social structure. The castrated and domesticated ox wasted away his life under the lash and in a narrow pen, labouring alone or in pairs in a way that suited neither its body nor its social and emotional needs. When an ox could no longer pull the plough, it was slaughtered. — Yuval Noah Harari

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me ... I want to be a friend. — Timothy Keller