Top 10 Iroh Quotes & Sayings

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself. — Mark Twain

He (Knox) handles the doctrines of election and justification as causes for bright joy in believers. 'Your imperfections shall have no power to damn you,' he writes to Mrs. Bowes, 'for Christ's perfection is reputed to be yours by faith, which you have in his blood.' 'God has received already at the hands of His only Son all that is due for our sins, and so cannot his justice require or crave any more of us, other satisfaction or recompense for our sins. — Iain Murray

We have friends in every woods we walk through, though we walk through them not knowing. — Katherine Catmull

So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Watch this!"
"Oh, that's just freaking great. 'Watch this!' The two most dangerous words in the English language. I'm getting out of here before lightning strikes. — Theodore Jerome Cohen

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church. — Henry David Thoreau

She didn't deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn't good enough of a man to just let her go. — Nicole R. Locker

Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours. — Ruta Sepetys

Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off. — Iris Murdoch

In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion. — John Bradshaw

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you. — Ralph Marston

Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people's deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth, — Anne Rice

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world. — Lee Smolin

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. — C.S. Lewis

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. — William Makepeace Thackeray