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God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.


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the word "Infinite".
Infin...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It's certainly an unfortunate delay. We regret the inconvenience; we apologize. We work hard to avoi...
KURT EBENHOCH I suggested in my last sermon that if Oolon Colluphid had tracked down the "God" who had left a mess...
ANDREW RILSTONE A fuse blew at Shea Stadium, causing us to lose power. It was for less than a full inning. We addres...
ANDREW FEGYVERESI We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellati...
BOB DICKINSON At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor...
RAMANA MAHARSHI i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the f...
PIERS ANTHONY And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it wer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read t...
PIERS ANTHONY START APPRECIATING GODS' CREATION, YOU WON'T NEED RECREATION !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS John Loftus has been reprimanded for his careless error, and we sincerely apologize to the family.
IRENA BRIGANTE Although the risk of misuse of the data contained in these files is very low, we apologize for any i...
BRIAN HEATH Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And ...
SRI CHINMOY Who really knows, and who can swear,
How creation came, when or where!
Even gods came afte...
RIG VEDA As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
EDWARD YOUNG All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS A desperate plea to the Trinity
is not something you can just
apologize for in the morning...
AMBER KONEVAL To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A ...
ALEISTER CROWLEY We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close.
DICKIE ADAMS I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting yo...
V.E. SCHWAB If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday.
I’d like to apologize ...
RICK RIORDAN Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Delilah Bard,” she said. “We’ve met before. And you looked worse.”
Rhy laughed silentl...
V.E. SCHWAB Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS We don't want to do anything to cause any inconvenience for customers.
JEFF LOWRANCE The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore....
NEIL GAIMAN In a world hooked in "Start-ups"
She was his final "Settle-down"

-The Drenched Write...
SHONALI DEY I should have spoken to you earlier, and I apologize for that. To all Belgian people, I want to say ...
DOUGLAS IVESTER I have peanut M&M's up there."
"Not my style"
"Raisinets."
"Feh."
"Sam Adams...
J.R. WARD With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go fo...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The Son of God perishes that we may not perish.

He rises that we may rise.

Tha...
DAVID HOLDSWORTH If pharaoh’s gods exist, then the one God is indeed the winner, but monotheism evaporates.
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS [Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me...
ELIZABETH VARGAS At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to t...
ALLEN JOHNSON Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio...
NORMAN MAILER Your hunter has a destiny to bear the mark of the gods. Only one true warrior receives such an honer...
M.R. MERRICK Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The business end of the World Cup was over sometime back and slowly all the teams played out their g...
APURVA GAGLANI Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.
DARNELL LAMONT WALKER Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
IRIS MURDOCH Thinking about her again caused his body to harden, to ready...
"Uh, I'm happy to sit close to ...
GENA SHOWALTER To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. . ...
ALEISTER CROWLEY To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
ALEISTER CROWLEY The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he c...
PATTI SMITH Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN God will certainly care for all His creation.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. "Nico, we need o have another talk about your people skills."<...
RICK RIORDAN Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Please accept our apology for any inconvenience or frustration we may have caused.
ELLEN JONES I am the slave of the Master of Prophets
And my fealty to him has no beginning.

I am...
يوسف النبهاني Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who hated and belittled each other's l...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your life is your creation. It is your message to the world. Share it and you share who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Annabeth nodded. "That's right.Alexander conquered Egypt.After he died, his general Ptolemy took ove...
RICK RIORDAN We are not going to apologize for prostitution but we are going to struggle for the dignity of the p...
SANDRO CORREIA The final week is when people are really paying attention, and you want to make sure your message is...
JAMES VAUGHN Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
MARTY RUBIN The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of N...
ANONYMOUS O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
BIBLE I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.”
“From all indicatio...
LISA KLEYPAS Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...
EDMUND BURKE Nimic nu-i mai rău pentru caracterul omului decât să fi mândru de faptele tale bune. Fie că te ...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Viața noastră e ca o călătorie pe pământ: prea ușoară și monotonă de-a lungul întinselor ...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Lumea nu merită sacrificiul de a trăi pentru ea, cu atât mai puțin de a muri.
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se află în jilțul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, �...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS E greu să-ți imaginezi lumea fără un creator, dar prefer să nu-mi închipui că faptele oamenil...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Such is the world
that I can no longer
bear to say prayers,
for I am sick
of...
ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE, 612 BC I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My grandfather was the first building inspector for Douglas County.
GARY MOSS That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
...
BRANDON SANDERSON But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted....
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Hazel blinked. “Two gods had a horse for a kid?”
“Long story.
RICK RIORDAN Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
S...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The greyness of life,
Is the mockery of despair.
For when it is final,
Who then will...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roar...
SARAH J. MAAS There's nothing to apologize for.
HOWARD MOSCOE God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him ...
LEO STRAUSS Apologize on you mistake in time-may you never get time again...
DEBOLINA BHAWAL We apologize to our fans.
ERRON KINNEY Our goal all along was to get at least one win from Reno, Carson and Douglas. Those are the three te...
ROB HASTINGS I want to apologize to Lynn Swann, his family, supporters and PCN viewers for the offensive and dist...
BILL SCRANTON If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
ZANE STUMPO In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON Find the right paths for your journey.
Travel along these paths to your final destination.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
DOUGLAS ADAMS Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
The second worst is that of the Az...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
DOUGLAS ADAMS In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou...
DOUGLAS ADAMS O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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