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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you’re in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick
You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.
He (David Beckham) does have a huge one, though. He does. You can see it in the advert. It is all his. It is like a tractor exhaust pipe!
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.
My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
It was never my intention to cause you pain. Whether you feel strongly or very little, that does not excuse thoughtless behavior." - Adam
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.
God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo." "He says he's not your sweet babboo." "What does he know?