Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts -… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
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The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
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Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
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I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
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Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
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