Turchin Law Quotes & Sayings

Do you dread sin? He has nailed it to His cross! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm. — Samuel Johnson

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. — Ted Cruz

He gave the side of her head a quick lick before she squealed and ducked away from him. Tasted like Meg. Felt like puppy fuzz. Too bad he couldn't hold her down and give her a proper grooming like he used to do with Sam. — Anne Bishop

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues. — Edward Abbey

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension — Henry Rollins

God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will — Sunday Adelaja

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out. — David Luiz

The kingdom to come includes not just worship but righteousness (ethics), communion (society), authority (politics), and "the glory and honor of the nations" (culture). — Russell D. Moore

Her eyes filled.
"He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them."
Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen! — Mary Roberts Rinehart

She just looked right at him the only way she ever had, like he was the only other person in the world. — John Corey Whaley

Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses. — Roopal Patel

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn't it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob? — Neil Gaiman