Wonder Working Biblical Figure Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Lecky never got any farther than the third floor. Not conscious of impossible fatigue, feeling less than his distress of the morning, he was notwithstanding seized by a faintness. This sudden spinning dizzied him. A darkness as impalpable, more discrete, yet blacker than night's, spun out from dancing points to overlapping disks. They were so wide, so close to his eyes, that he could not strike them off. He had only a second given him to see and apprehend. This same second loosened his grip on consciousness. He seemed to let go, hardly struggling. His muscles let go everywhere, too. He had time to hear, like some remote accident, the bang of the shotgun, gone, the smash of glass in at least one flashlight lens. This was the thin segment of the actual second, and Mr. Lecky knew nothing of himself slumping to lie on the stairs with the things he had dropped. — James Gould Cozzens

I've got big, big dreams for the future. — Margot Robbie

Aristotle thought place should "take precedence of all other things" because place gives order to the world. Casey tells us that Aristotle claimed that place "gives bountiful aegis - active protective support - to what it locates. — Anonymous

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used. — James Purdy

The gun bounced so much in her shaky grasp that if she did fire, he'd likely be the one to catch the bullet. — Cathy Skendrovich

The Smile for some is an expression of joy, but for others it's a whole world of hope. — Abdel Halim Boudekhana

I don't actually own a car. — Chris Martin

Being rejected by someone you knew you never stood a chance with is like pouring salt on a wound that already has salt in it. It preserves the hurt. — Maria G. Cope

The centurion surprised them. "The blessing of Messiah be upon you." Demas went blank. Gestas was quick. He replied, "And also upon you, brother." Gestas pushed the stunned Demas out the door. Once they left the house, Gestas whispered to Demas, "Amazing. They consider each other family. Roman, Pharisee and pleb. — Brian Godawa

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. — David Hockney

Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car! — Donna Brazile

They fail to consult or listen to the God within them, the knowledge of rightness which inherently resides within the minds of all mankind. We make this failure because we are lazy. It is work to hold these internal debates. They require time and energy just to conduct them. And if we take them seriously - if we seriously listen to this "God within us" - we usually find ourselves being urged to take the more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. To conduct the debate is to open ourselves to suffering and struggle. Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold back from this work, will also seek to avoid this painful step. Like Adam and Eve, and every one of our ancestors before us, we are all — M. Scott Peck

It was closer to the sound a heavy snowfall makes, a muffled hush that almost makes less noise than no noise at all. Felurian — Patrick Rothfuss

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence. — Alexander Stepanov