Unsharpened Meat Quotes & Sayings

On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly. — John R. Lott Jr.

A working class hero is something to be. — John Lennon

Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was "greater" than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view that would later be deemed a heresy. Theology, in these early years of the formation of Christian doctrine, could not stand still. It progressed and got more complicated, sophisticated, and refined as time went on. — Bart D. Ehrman

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle. — Helen Sharman

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage. — Joseph Glanvill

Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. It only shows you are smarter today than you were yesterday. — Marilyn Taylor Klam

Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there ... — Lois McMaster Bujold

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration. — Wilferd Peterson

Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire. — Poggio Bracciolini

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. — William Davenant