Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Quotes to Explore
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I like pushing boundaries.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.
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I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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It's always my situation. It's always, I've got to be somewhere for one or two years, they re-evaluate you from here and there and then go from there.
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What we need is action. The problem for the European Union is that we can only go at the pace of the slowest. Therefore, there is a special responsibility on the countries which have failed so far implementing measures to get moving.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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You have only one life, make the most of it
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
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If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.
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We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.
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Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.
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Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
