Wordier Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps there is a God like firelight, but all we can see is the shadows that we cast ourselves when we walk in front of the fire. Then we see great leaping shadows and think that this is God, but really it is only our own image. — Philippa Gregory

The power of action is a divine force sets into motion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Haven't gotten laid since I first laid eyes on you. — Emma Rider

When harsh words cut you down and open long-forgotten wounds,may you, beloved daughter of a King,stand tall in your dignity and worth. — Joan Campbell

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. — Xun Zi

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. — Leo Tolstoy

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky. — Paul Krugman

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself — Karl Barth

Man usually believes, if only words he hears,
That also with them goes material for thinking.
[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,
Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe