Anthony Trollope Quotes
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.Anthony Trollope
Quotes to Explore
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Vikram Seth -
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret -
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid -
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter -
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
Natasha Trethewey
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Manuel Puig -
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
R. C. Sproul -
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
R. C. Sproul -
God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
R. C. Sproul -
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
R. C. Sproul -
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
R. C. Sproul
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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 -
When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give them a set of Scriptural texts. He gave them a meal.
Rachel Grace Held -
There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.
Anselm of Canterbury -
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
Arthur Ashe -
The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
Ben Nicholson
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
Robert Frost -
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
Joyce Carol Oates -
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Harvey Cox -
The greatest revelation is stillness.
Lao Tzu -
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
Anthony Trollope