For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being… — Origen Copy Share Image
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
"You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks, sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . .… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down -… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
