Bart Ehrman Quotes
Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP” (“Rest in Peace”).
Ancient Romans had something comparable, a seven-letter abbreviation that spoke volumes:
“I was not; I was; I am not; I care not.”
The meaning is clear.
There was no existence before birth.
A person existed only after being born.
After death there once more was no existence.
Bart Ehrman
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge
I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
Quavo
Migos
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
Pamela Anderson
Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
Barry Bostwick
Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
Valentina Zelyaeva
Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.
Rachel Caine
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Heed not the night;
A summer lodge amid the wild is mine,
'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree,
'Tis mantled by the vine.
William Cullen Bryant
Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.
Rain
Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP” (“Rest in Peace”).
Ancient Romans had something comparable, a seven-letter abbreviation that spoke volumes:
“I was not; I was; I am not; I care not.”
The meaning is clear.
There was no existence before birth.
A person existed only after being born.
After death there once more was no existence.
Bart Ehrman
