Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's… — D.M. Lee Copy Share Image
The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a… — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
When John first began to receive the Revelation of Jesus Christ he fell at His feet like a dead man. His head… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out,… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
“They didn’t call me the Executioner for nothing. So how did I end up being safer in the depths of the Circus… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Why did you start to write? I left at 15.. I started to write becase I was taken off a ship from… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it.… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
“And there the trail ended: with the quotation exposed as a half-remembered story told by a dead man who might or might… — Brooks Jackson Copy Share Image
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
