Tertullian Quotes

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

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• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Want

• My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • She
  • Career

• I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Home
  • Song
  • Emotional

• When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Different
  • Experience

• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

  

  Hans Frank
  • God
  • Lonely

• Don Conroy died with exemplary courage, as one would expect. He never complained about pain or whimpered or cried out. His death was stoical and quiet. He never quit fighting, never surrendered, and never gave up. He died like a king. He died like The Great Santini. I thank you with all my heart.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Heart

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Twelve

• We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

  

  James Gleick
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Habit

• I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Nature

• The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

  

  Tertullian
  • Nature
  • Teacher
  • Learned