Writ Quotes

78 quotes by 62 authors

Here lies one whose name was writ in water. — John Keats
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!' — Julian Huxley
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochodaâ€™s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and… — Dennis Lehane
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
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
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
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
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
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
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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.
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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