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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.


Hilaire Belloc

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SUNDAY ADELAJA If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Once God gives you an idea; if it is not against the written word of God, if it is good for God and ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is...
DEYTH BANGER If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has d...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX He has been affected for a fortnight and could not work out with the national team.
HORST HELDT I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such dri...
NENIA CAMPBELL I know Wes was creating such an institute, with regards to digitizing curriculums, ... He said that ...
GEORGE DENNISON IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
NARGIS FAKHRI I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept mor...
BRUCE GROCOTT And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would y...
ANONYMOUS If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves
LANE KIRKLAND We do not have anyone in mind but would hope to make an appointment in the next fortnight.
GORDON MCDOUGALL Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Where would you be if God took away al...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not...
MATTHEW S. WILLIAMS If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
GEORGE ADE If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable
GEORGE ADE God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would no...
C.S. LEWIS As the days pass by, it would seem that he may not run because he is not energizing his base or the ...
CLEMENT ALEXANDER PRICE If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, suc...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write not...
J.C. RYLE If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t...
ISAAC ASIMOV And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do not let that game destroy your life. Get rid of it, get outside..
TREVON CLARK Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends...
GEORGE HERBERT We've tried to run down as many people as we can. We've processed the scene as we would if it were a...
LT. DON WHITEHEAD There's a possibility that we might actually run this thing. The people who were able to attend the ...
JAY HALL If the president were not involved, if an ordinary citizen were the subject of the inquiry ... this ...
THOMAS SULLIVAN Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God s...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY He'll run somewhere in the next fortnight.
FRANK BERRY I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office,...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever rec...
ERNST HAAS There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. If it were bottomless, it would not be a pit. The only t...
RON BRACKIN If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...
WENDELL BERRY Although it would not excuse such alleged acts, ... history records that the early weeks of the Kore...
LOUIS CALDERA People raising families don't know you can't have a painting with a Bible in it (in City Hall). The ...
LLOYD MARCUS If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does n...
YANN MARTEL Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so tha...
MOTHER TERESA If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have par...
SUSAN HAMPSHIRE The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The drippi...
KEITH HARING It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite eas...
H. L. MENCKEN It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite eas...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e...
MARC LEVY I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER If there were kids out with it starting last Thursday, I would hope that by Friday something would h...
LAURA BERG The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversi...
BAHA'U'LLAH Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than...
JAMES LIND No god worthy of worship would be associated with such character flaws as vanity, jealousy, vengeanc...
ARON RA If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...
HENRI POINCARE If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...
HENRI POINCARE If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility a...
HUDSON MAXIM If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its m...
VICTOR HUGO Such a decline would be an unwelcome headwind for the continuing recovery but it would not reverse t...
GREGORY MANKIW But now, before that new birth take place in the spirit of man, it wants, but knows not what, craves...
JOHN HOWE It had been iffy on and off for the past year. They had said last year that if they could not find a...
JOY WRIGHT Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken t...
DAVID BEN-GURION The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does throu...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not b...
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DIEGO RIVERA And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, cam...
MARTIN BUBER If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it,...
SENECA Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 It is a poor thing to strike our colours to Go...
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ALBERT CAMUS If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn&...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY The wheels fell off in the last two events. I'm not sure if it was a lack of focus, a lack of trusti...
FRANK KUDLAC If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
HERACLITUS A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary w...
JOHN CALVIN Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
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CHARLES J. SHIELDS If it were easy it would not be any fun.
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