Trellised Quotes & Sayings

Barabbas ("Son of the Father") is a kind of Messianic figure. Two interpretations of Messianic hope are juxtaposed here in the offer of the Passover amnesty. In terms of Roman law, it is a case of two criminals convicted of the same offense - two rebels against the Pax Romana. It is clear that Pilate prefers the nonviolent "fanatic" that he sees in Jesus. Yet the crowd and the Temple authorities have different categories. If the Temple aristocracy felt constrained to declare: "We have no king but Caesar" (Jn 19:15), this only appears to be a renunciation of Israel's Messianic hope: "We do not want this king" is what they mean. They would like to see a different solution to the problem. Again and again, mankind will be faced with this same choice: to say yes to the God who works only through the power of truth and love, or to build on something tangible and concrete - on violence. Jesus — Pope Benedict XVI

Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change
and clobber
other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible. — Richard Rohr

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

No use saying necessity is making a mistake. — Mason Cooley

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now, — Herman Melville

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba. — Terry Pratchett

Tis time to die when we are ourselves our foes. — Thomas Middleton

Explanation is a well-dressed error. — Julio Cortazar

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. — Madeleine L'Engle

One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland with Amory and Eleanor, dim phantasmal shapes, expressing eternal beauty and curious elfin love moods. Then they turned out of the moonlight into the trellised darkness of a vine-hung pagoda, where there were scents so plaintive as to be nearly musical. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest. — Kate Moss

The maximum flow problem is to find the maximum amount of flow passing from the source node to the sink node. This is equivalent to finding the minimum capacity that needs to be removed from the network so that no flow can pass from the source to the sink. The problem can be formulated as a linear program (LP — Anonymous

He'd meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He'd also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again. — Richard Russo

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. — Chris Hughes

Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective. — Ramana Maharshi