So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.


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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
On Thanksgiving Day, 2011, my pastor Peter Jonker preached a marvelous sermon on Psalm 65 with an in...
CORNELIUS PLANTINGA JR.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderne...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.
MARCUS CORNELIUS FRONTO
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
The illicit has an added charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
There will be vice as long as there are men
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON
What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON
You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES
I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON
hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON
From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN
In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON