Decree Quotes
126 quotes by 106 authors
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Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still…
— Tess Gerritsen
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I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the…
— Daniel Defoe
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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.
— Bernard Cornwell
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
— Matthew Henry
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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no…
— Horace
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves…
— A. E. Housman
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything…
— Harold H. Greene
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The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would…
— John Bates Clark
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Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee.…
— Robert Herrick
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And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor…
— Bible
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The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat…
— Bible
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
— Ambrose Bierce
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For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Each and every human being is unique this is God's creation and decree .it is only what we learn and how we exibit it makes…
— Melchor Lim
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Ti's not religion nor politics nor decree, Ti's not history nor ethics nor the visions you might see, Ti's the simplicity to be who you…
— Jasmina Siderovski
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When will you be it, when will you see it, that thoughts and things they manifest when you decree it.
— Krs One
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I will now declare the decree: The LORD God JAH Rastafari hath said unto I and I and I. That thou art I sons, that…
— Big Youth
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