Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt…

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

— William Shakespeare

“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears…

— Omar Khayyam

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban…

— John Yoo

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong…

— Stephen Hunter

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

— William Cowper

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ.”

— Haruki Murakami

“All law is writ in a seed.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the…

— Karen Armstrong

“we rescue our tears from the sea secure them by writ”

— M. Nourbese Philip

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

— John Keats

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,…

— Douglas E. Richards

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

— Galileo Galilei

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of…

— Steven Heighton