Writ Quotes
78 quotes by 63 authors
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
— John Keats
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How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
— Julian Huxley
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The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things…
— William Shakespeare
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The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the…
— Tycho Brahe
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Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on the…
— Richard Henry Lee
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This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the…
— John Keats
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Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate…
— Alcuin
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Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in…
— Fred Reed
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Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation.…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and…
— Dennis Lehane
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The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as…
— Richard Lewontin
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky.…
— Brian Greene
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For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true…
— Hilary of Poitiers
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
— Eric Hoffer
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Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have…
— Watchman Nee
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Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that…
— Aphra Behn
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Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less…
— William Coperthwaite
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The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And…
— Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
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