Wood Common Defects Quotes & Sayings

Biblical exegesis without controls is apt to run away into total subjectivity. — Gordon Wenham

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

And what,' he asked the dragons, 'so spurred their zeal?'
'Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris. — Steven Erikson

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

We should add very much to our happiness by a timely recognition of the simple truth that every man's chief and real existence is in his own skin, and not in other people's opinions [...] To set much too high a value on other people's opinion is a common error everywhere; an error, it may be, rooted in human nature itself, or the result of civilization, and social arrangements generally; but, whatever its source, it exercises a very immoderate influence on all we do, and is very prejudicial to our happiness. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young. — John Dewey

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them? — Eckhart Tolle

It's not in searching externally for the peace that passes all understanding; it's in searching from within you. — Alice Hocker

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys. — Mark Z. Danielewski