Ezra Stiles Quotes

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Ezra Stiles

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• I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Self
  • Towns

• There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Nature
  • Healing
  • Wilderness

• These are the days of Elijah Declaring the Word of the Lord And these are the days of your servant Moses Righteousness being restored And though these are days of great trials Of famine and darkness and sword Still we are the voice in the desert crying Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Behold He comes! Riding on the clouds! Shining like the sun! At the trumpet call Lift your voice! It’s the year of Jubilee! And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes! And these are the days of Ezekiel The dry bones becoming as flesh And these are the days of your servant David Rebuilding a temple of praise And these are the days of the harvest The fields are as white in the world And we are the laborers in your vineyard Declaring the word of the Lord! Behold He comes! Riding on the clouds! Shining like the sun! At the trumpet call Lift your voice! It’s the year of Jubilee! And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes! There’s no God like Jehovah! There’s no God like Jehovah! There’s no God like Jehovah! Words and Music by Robin Mark.

  

  Walid Shoebat
  • Word
  • Lord
  • Elijah

• I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wish
  • Horse
  • Speed

• The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Idea
  • Public
  • Stone

• I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Mountain
  • Goats

• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Sweet
  • Devil
  • Poison

• He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mother
  • Hands
  • Christmas

• I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Clear

• The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Women
  • Politics
  • Achieve

• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destruction
  • Islam
  • Teaches

• Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Women
  • Perfect
  • Persona

• I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Strong
  • Question
  • Belief

• There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Children

• Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Spiritual
  • inspirational

• The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Triumph
  • Delivery
  • Legislature

• If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

  

  Michael Rispoli
  • Director
  • Would
  • Worked

• But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Connecticut
  • Legislature
  • Polity