Tvet Colleges Quotes & Sayings

The desert to us is tohu wabohu, a place of chaos that is unformed and unfilled. When we crossed the Red Sea, Yahweh had promised us that he would crush the heads of Leviathan and Rahab and create the heavens and the earth out of the chaos. This was another way of saying that Yahweh would establish his kingdom covenant order out of the disorder and lawlessness that was Canaan. Sending the goat out into the desert to Azazel, was not an offering to the damnable goat demon, but rather it was a banishment of Israel's sin to the realm of chaos outside Yahweh's kingdom - the same realm of Azazel. — Brian Godawa

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life. — Paulo Coelho

That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful. — Sean DeLauder

Back in those less complicated times, there were lots of industries that operated more or less by rote: the old banker's motto, for instance, was "3-6-3": take money in at 3 percent, lend it out at 6 percent, and be on the golf course by 3 P.M. — Bethany McLean

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. — Victoria Principal

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. — Paula Poundstone

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater. — Augusto Boal

In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people.
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But out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive; the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice. — Ernie Pyle

As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs - indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case. — Anthony Powell

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice. — Guy Laliberte

I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat. — Sidney Crosby

I've always had a very broad taste in music. — Paul Wardingham

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. — Hannah More

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco. — Andrew Weil