Weblike Filling Quotes & Sayings

It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom. — Alfred Kinsey

ISAIAH 50 Background This chapter can be compared with 2 Nephi 7. As with many other portions of Isaiah, this chapter speaks of the future as if it had already taken place. A major question here is who has left whom when people apostatize and find themselves far away from God spiritually. Another question that Isaiah asks is, essentially, "Why don't you come unto Christ? Has He lost His power to save you?" It is in this chapter that we learn that one of the terrible tortures inflicted upon the Savior during His trial and crucifixion was the pulling out of His whiskers (see verse 6). At the beginning of verse 1, the Lord asks, in effect, "Did I leave you, or did you leave me? — David J. Ridges

I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.' — Jesse Ventura

My first few weeks as a vampire had been inordinately busy. Like The Young and the Restless, but with slightly dead people. — Chloe Neill

There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes. — Max Wertheimer

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise. — Len Smith

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same. — Rex Stout

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. — Blaise Pascal

While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body. — Deepak Chopra

He waited until 1896 to build the first truck. — Jared Diamond

Remember, because this is important. Graveirs, like ghouls and other monsters in this category, do not have their own ecological niche. They are relicts from the age of the interpenetration of spheres. Killing them does not upset the order and interconnections of nature which prevail in our present sphere. In this sphere these monsters are foreign and there is no place for them. — Andrzej Sapkowski

No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker) — Katsura Hoshino

Power is the great aphrodisiac. — Henry A. Kissinger