Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a… — Don Young
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies… — Roger Wicker
Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened… — Ezra Taft Benson
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would start… — Linda Sue Park
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing… — Doug Scott
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental… — Gail Sheehy
Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible;… — Oswald Chambers
Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds… — Daisaku Ikeda
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in… — Adolf Hitler
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If… — Soren Kierkegaard
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but… — Pope Dionysius
In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing… — Norman Geisler
The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed… — David Jeremiah
Regarding the passage on p. 163 of the 'Gleanings': The creatures which Bahá'u'lláh states to be found on every planet cannot be considered to be… — Shoghi Effendi
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil… — Samuel Johnson
Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and… — Sri Chinmoy
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,… — Alfred North Whitehead
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which… — Dante Alighieri
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have… — Howard Roberts
A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… — Paul Watzlawick
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean… — Howard Carter

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