Vassalage In The Middle Ages Quotes & Sayings

Which of you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone." The people are abashed, and they forget their unity of purpose in the memory of their own individual sins. Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance. I should treat her the way I wish to be treated. As they open their hands and let the stones fall to the ground, the rabbi picks up one of the fallen stones, lifts it high over the woman's head, and throws it straight down with all his might. It crushes her skull and dashes her brains onto the cobblestones. "Nor am I without sin," he says to the people. "But if we allow only perfect people to enforce the law, the law will soon be dead, and our city with it. — Orson Scott Card

A little bird told me," said the Lion. — Gregory Maguire

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill. — Bruce Willis

That's what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they're gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with. — Jacob D. Lochner

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed. — Melissa McCarthy

I don't think I have the right parts to appreciate '50 Shades of Grey'. — Chris Colfer

Sink me, nobody of this tub agrees with anybody else about anything, except maybe what the fellow with the horns told the old man in the clouds: Non serviam. — Robert Shea

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world. — Phillip Lopate

When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it. — Steven Tyler

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. — Saint Augustine

With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.
'Well done, Megan, you took your punishment well. Now it's time for your reward. — Felicity Brandon

If I weren't out of my mind at this second, I would've sworn he nuzzled my temple. — Piper Shelly

With headphones on, you can hear and appreciate extreme detail and subtlety, and the lack of uncontrollable reverb inherent in hearing music in a live room means that rhythmic material survives beautifully and completely intact; it doesn't get blurred or turned into sonic mush as it often does in a concert hall. — David Byrne