Wace Quotes
“Once I journeyed far from home To the gate of holy Rome; There the Pope, for my offence, Bade me straight, in penance, thence Wandering onward, to attain The wondrous land that height Cokaigne.”Wace
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
Tammy Duckworth -
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers -
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle -
I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
Inara George -
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
Caitlin Flanagan -
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Randall Terry
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers -
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].
Vladimir Putin -
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William Shakespeare -
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
William Shakespeare -
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
William Goldman
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God knows what lives in me in place of me.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
Naveen Jain -
I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
Nate Diaz -
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
Joseph J. Ellis -
Tell me that I got the fattest pussy in the whole world & if I let him eat it I can be his old girl
Nicki Minaj
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
P. J. O'Rourke -
“Once I journeyed far from home To the gate of holy Rome; There the Pope, for my offence, Bade me straight, in penance, thence Wandering onward, to attain The wondrous land that height Cokaigne.”
Wace