Wadis Quotes & Sayings

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization. — Karl Marx

It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it ... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis ... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen ... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish ... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did ... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing. — Paul Torday

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career. — Jenni Rivera

A library is a palace of dreams. — M.C. Beaton

This list of names was a record of those that Adam gave the animals in the Garden as an expression of his covenantal dominion, the authority that the namer had over the named. "You have two days," said Yahweh Elohim. Enoch knew the Accuser had no intent of reading the genealogies and names. But even in the face of this obvious stalling tactic, Yahweh Elohim went out of his way to be fair and impartial, even to his own disadvantage. — Brian Godawa

Because he's just so, so," Peter paused looking for the right word, "so French! — Jack Lewis Baillot

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing. — Nathan Myhrvold

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am. — Rihanna

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God. — John Calvin

When angel meets Watcher, they're like two feral cats meeting each other in an alley. They raise their feathers, making their wings look spiky and larger than before. — Susan Ee

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. — Florence Nightingale

If you were mine, I would never be able to walk away from you. If you were mine, I'd worship every inch of your body with my hands, lips, and tongue. If you were mine, I wouldn't be able to stand in the same room as you without running my hands over your skin and tasting your lips. If you were mine ... — Tara Sivec

Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes — Archimedes

I will say I am the sum of my books. — V.S. Naipaul

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. — Virginia Postrel