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.Tertullian
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Fanny Kemble -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
Earl Weaver -
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
Karl Malone -
I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
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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.
Adam Carolla -
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara -
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.
Walt Whitman -
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.
Rainn Wilson -
We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
Barack Obama
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
Abraham Maslow -
There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
Dan Simmons -
Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
Zooey Deschanel -
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.
Natalie Portman -
‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
Anthony Burgess -
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
August Strindberg -
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.
Louis Pasteur -
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
Max Lucado -
I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
Bryan White -
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.
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