Anne Roe Quotes
So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
Anne Roe
Quotes to Explore
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach
Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian
I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
Samm Levine
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
Adam Clarke
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
Young Thug
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.
James Martineau
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle
What in your life is calling you,
When all the noise is silenced,
The meetings adjourned...
The lists laid aside,
And the Wild Iris blooms
By itself
In the dark forest...
What still pulls on your soul?
Rumi
So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
Anne Roe