Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.Emily James Smith Putnam
Quotes to Explore
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
Walter Lang -
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid -
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei -
You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
Jack Welch -
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
R. C. Sproul
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
R. C. Sproul -
I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...
Dan T. Cathy -
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
Edwidge Danticat -
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
Cornelia Parker -
It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
King James I -
Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
Douglas Jerrold -
There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
Robert Frost -
God's delays are not God's denials.
Robert H. Schuller -
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
Plato -
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
Plato -
Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
Johannes Kepler
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
Mahatma Gandhi -
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
Socrates -
I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.
Rebecca Hall -
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
Emily James Smith Putnam