Ephrem the Syrian Quotes

The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

Ephrem the Syrian

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• Symbols
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• Blade

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• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • Gay

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • School
  • High
  • Thought

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
  • Matter

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Society
  • Trust

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Society
  • Alone
  • Universe

• The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into all the members. The liver is the mother of the blood.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Mother
  • Water

• I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • City

• I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • People
  • Music

• An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Rest

• I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Great

• All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

  

  Delmore Schwartz

• I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Cowboy

• Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

  

  Amanda Peet

• This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Up
  • Career
  • Rest

• I would like to be known as a great leader, not as a great woman leader.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Great

• There was a common saying in the biz/tech world that 'A's hire A's, and B's hire C's,' the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to sign up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

  

  Arthur George Gaston
  • People

• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Worry

• The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Faith
  • Soil
  • Symbols