Writ Quotes

78 quotes by 63 authors

I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The… — Tom Peters
I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving… — Ogden Nash
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. — Murray Rothbard
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to… — Terence McKenna
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know! — Tom Baker
And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me,… — James Otis
Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he… — James Otis
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name… — Ezra Taft Benson
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either… — Benjamin Franklin
The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on. — Omar Khayyam
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced… — John F. Kennedy
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means… — Galileo Galilei
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South — Lord Byron
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried… — William Shakespeare
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. — Henry Fielding
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least… — Thomas Aquinas
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears...… — Bayard Taylor
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled… — John F. Kennedy

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