Cotton Mather Quotes

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Cotton Mather

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• How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Cutting
  • Without
  • Come

• We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Successful

• I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Heaven

• As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • I Can
  • Museums

• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  

  C. Wagner
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Violence

• I accept myself for who I am as a woman and a mother and this has given me the most confidence.

  

  Lais Ribeiro
  • Mother
  • Confidence

• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Government
  • Independence

• Without going outside, you may know the whole world!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Know
  • Outside

• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Challenge
  • Revolution

• I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Doctrine

• Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Treasury
  • Everlasting

• No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Art
  • Brother
  • Eye

• The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Rules
  • Sing
  • Social Situation

• We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

  

  George Washington
  • Fall
  • Humans
  • Perfection

• So, been attacked by any vampires yet?" "Not one." "Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?" It's been really quiet on the supernatural front" "Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Bad
  • Water
  • Dog

• You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Beautiful
  • Single
  • Silence

• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Self
  • Fishing
  • Monsters

• ...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Night
  • Faith
  • Sun

• Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Healing
  • Passive

• Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Monsters
  • Bubbling
  • Your Maker's