Tertullian Quotes

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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• Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Process
  • Excellence
  • Days

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • American
  • Free
  • Support

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Overcome

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• I wanted to update the American people on what we know about the situation in Japan, what we’re doing to support American citizens and the safety of our own nuclear energy, and how we are helping the Japanese people contain the damage, recover and rebuild.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Energy

• I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Soul

• Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women
  • American
  • Hope

• A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Die
  • Judge
  • Islamic

• Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Community
  • Religious

• It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Force
  • Lovers
  • Trees

• I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • Nature

• If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Couple

• One family - we dwell in Him,One church above, beneath,Though now divided by the stream,The narrow stream of death.

  

  Charles Wesley
  • Family
  • Death
  • Church

• Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

  

  Tertullian
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Shame