Tertullian Quotes
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.
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I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
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Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.
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I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own. (#2, p. 9)
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
