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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b7dda9 | Nursing Service. | Charles Todd | ||
| df00c9d | It was a miracle, finding myself a father. I can't tell you. He was so small, and yet so real. He moved, he made sounds, he opened his eyes and stared into my face. His hands clutched at my fingers. It was unexpected, the depth of my feelings for him even then. I'd have done anything for him. Died for him if need be. Nothing I'd ever done to that point in my life seemed half so important. | Charles Todd | ||
| 592ad2b | When self-doubt awakens, it feeds on itself. . . . | Charles Todd | ||
| 88e8183 | I hadn't realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I'd feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after this. | Charles Todd | ||
| 31c6ffe | Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. | Abstinence | ||
| cdb7b06 | A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that." "How" | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4a0a52a | How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be." "That" | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6b7931b | La historia de mi vida no existe. Eso no existe. Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni linea. Hay bastos pasajes donde se insinua que alguien hubo, no es cierto, no hubo nadie. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| e595dec | There is a man named Ovi Niit. He runs a comfort house in the soft quarter. I mean to take it from him. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 133a2be | The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would require not only an understanding of the draconic mind lost to humanity (if indeed it were ever available), but also a comprehension of the particular form of madness which took him in the violent days that ended his reign. Certain facts are known: that Morade's clutch-mates contested his selection to the throne, t.. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 5f5b60b | I'm saying there is evil in the world," Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, "and doubt is the weapon that guards against it. Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the top of the pile. "But if you doubt everything," the Tralgu said, "how can anything be justified?" "Tentatively. And subject to later examination. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent an.. | epistemology skepticism | Daniel Abraham | |
| 2d0e12e | speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgment. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 08a3edd | Muito cedo foi tarde demais em minha vida. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 3234dee | The challenge here is that we have been trained to read even the Bible as a catalog of heroes to emulate. Moses is the great model of leadership, Joshua is the ideal warrior, and we should "dare to be a Daniel," as the old hymn exhorts. This is a little odd, when you actually read the narratives and discover that Abraham, Noah, Moses, David, and all the rest were ordinary sinners like the rest of us who had received an extraordinary calling.. | Michael S. Horton | ||
| 0a6170e | You only have to enforce boundaries where they're being imposed, | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 0c545a4 | God wished to humble his people. Therefore, Daniel here sets before us the providence and judgments of God, that we may not think Jerusalem to have been taken in violation of God's promise to Abraham and his posterity. | John Calvin | ||
| 25a8b87 | And what's the difference between us, that you'll brush his sins aside and not my own?" Maati smiled. "You aren't him," he said. "And you love him." Maati took a pose of affirmation. "And love is more important than justice," Seedless said. "Sometimes. Yes." Seedless smiled and nodded. "What a terrible thought," he said. "That love and injustice should be married." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| c478730 | I've never told Liat. About who I am. Do you think ... Maati, can you love someone and not trust them?" "We're born to odd lives, Otah-kvo," Maati said, sounding suddenly older and more sorrowful. "If we waited for people we trusted, I think we might never love anyone." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 1d7edaf | A lot of people rely on yesterday's attitude, or last week's attitude, or last year's attitude. That thing is old and stale. Start putting on a fresh new attitude, every morning. Get your mind going in the right direction. Develop the habit of living in a positive mind-set. This is what the Bible's Daniel did. The scripture says he had an excellent spirit. He was a cut above. He stood out in the crowd. How did he do it? Every morning he got.. | Joel Osteen | ||
| ca056c3 | Ohio had achieved statehood in 1803, but it continued to grow dramatically, doubling in population from a quarter of a million to half a million in the decade following 1810. By 1820, it had actually become the fourth most populous state, exceeded only by New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Indiana and Illinois, admitted into the Union as states in 1816 and 1818, had respectively 147,000 and 55,000 people in the census of 1820.33 The sout.. | Daniel Walker Howe | ||
| 30fdf42 | Escribire libros. Eso es lo que vislumbro mas alla del instante, en el gran desierto bajo cuyos trazos se me aparece la amplitud de mi vida. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d9d1ce3 | Endurance also itself forces its way to the divine likeness, reaping as its fruit impassibility through patience, if what is related of Ananias be kept in mind; who belonged to a number, of whom Daniel the prophet, filled with divine faith, was one. Daniel dwelt at Babylon, as Lot at Sodom, and Abraham, who a little after became the friend of God, in the land of Chaldea. The king of the Babylonians let Daniel down into a pit full of wild be.. | christian-life christianity | Clement of Alexandria | |
| e40f647 | What had been a shared moment was private now, and always would be. Even if he were to tell the story, it would be a tale told and not the thing itself. The difference between those two was the division between life and death: a lived moment and one entombed. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| bffbc8f | justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 5069364 | I don't mean this to sound cruel," Tish began, "but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off." "I agree," Katie said. "I didn't really become a woman until I felt Mackenzie inside me. I mean, there's all this talk these days of God versus science, but it seems like, with babies, both sides agree. The Bible says be fruitful and multiply, and science, well, when it all boils down,.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5c307f3 | Maybe even more important, though, is that when we cast vision we follow in the footsteps of our vision-casting God. God has been casting vision from the very beginning. In Genesis 1:26-28, He cast a compelling vision of man and his role in creation. In Genesis 12 He cast vision to Abraham about a preferred future for him even though he and his wife could not have children. He cast vision to Samuel in 1 Samuel 7 about David's eternal house,.. | Eric Mason | ||
| 76cf0c7 | The story of a person could never be as complex as they actually were because then it would take as much time to know someone as it did to be them. Reputation, even when deserved, inevitably meant simplification, and every simplification deformed. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 3c78678 | Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying . . . O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in th.. | William Struse | ||
| df4a141 | And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on .. | William Struse | ||
| ca8b493 | the symbolism of the ketubah as it related to the bride of Christ--how the New Testament was a type of ketubah for believers. It described Yeshua's love and commitment, as well as how he intended to provide for his bride in every contingency. The modern Jewish ketubah, in many ways, was a symbolic prenuptial agreement which served as a substitute for the traditional bride price. | William Struse | ||
| 10aac2c | The groom, instead of giving the father of the bride a sum of money, gave the bride a ketubah or contract which promised that sum at some future date as a means of provision for his bride in the case of his death or the dissolving of the marriage. | William Struse | ||
| 9c9eb8d | I'm not hedging, Rachael. I want you to know I don't want a prenuptial agreement, because I see them as nothing more than a license to fail. I've given you my heart and all my earthy possessions, whatever life circumstances come our way. I have no expectations outside of what we can experience together. | William Struse | ||
| 3bc5a4f | Did Solomon realize God would humble himself and take on the form of a man so that he could redeem mankind from their sins? So he could pay the price for their failings? Was sin allowed to happen so that mankind could learn to truly fear and appreciate God? Someday, when all the accounts were settled, would we look back with wisdom and understanding to see God's intention? Or looking back, would we see the whole panorama of life with the my.. | William Struse | ||
| a1cd289 | One counts the Jubilee as interrupting the yearly Sabbath cycle. In this method, you have seven sets of seven years followed by a fiftieth year, which then resets the count. The other school of thought counts the Jubilee as synchronized with the Sabbath cycle. In this method, the first and the last year of the Jubilee cycle overlap once every fifty years. | William Struse | ||
| b0bcc38 | Tell, one, offering, loved. Or in other words, it could read, 'Proclaim YHWH (Echad) loved his offering.'" "And who was YHWH's offering?" Zane asked. "Yeshua," Rachael whispered reverently. Involuntarily, John 3:16-17 came into her mind, and she spoke those famous words, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into.. | William Struse | ||
| 22473d8 | Throughout the Old Testament, the number fourteen is associated with sacrifice. During the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, thirteen rams, two bullocks, and fourteen lambs are required to be sacrificed. Every month for thousands of years, the moon has testified to those who have followed its cycles. From first visible light, the moon waxes for thirteen or fourteen days, reaching its maximum, and then for thirteen or fourteen more days.. | William Struse | ||
| 2d40a08 | The prophecy of seventy weeks states the Messiah will be cut off after sixty-two weeks, or literally, sixty-two sevens. As I explained before, this sixty-two weeks follows the first seven weeks, so the cumulative total is sixty-nine sevens,' or 483 periods of time (69 x 7 = 483). Fourteen is associated with sacrifice throughout the Old Testament. Now, if my theory is correct, these 'weeks' or sevens will be measured by a symbolic length of .. | William Struse | ||
| 55b9d5a | Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 25890c0 | I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4027cdc | I don't even want to ask," he said. "You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4c04fc9 | entered fourteen into one of the cells on his spreadsheet. Then he multiplied fourteen by the lunar cycle of 29.53 days. This gave him 413.42 days for each period of time. Next, he multiplied the 413.42 days by the sixty-nine weeks, or 483 periods of time. This gave him a total of 199,681.9 days, after which the Messiah was cut off. From his earlier research, he knew the "command to restore and build Jerusalem," given by YHWH and witnessed .. | William Struse | ||
| 8cf33dd | 27 AD is within the time frame many scholars believe that Jesus began his ministry. Depending upon who you listen to, Jesus was crucified or cut off two or three years later, in 30 AD." "What about thirteen?" Rachael asked. "From the list of Matthew, it also seems to be important. If fourteen is associated with the Messiah's sacrifice, is it possible that thirteen is associated with his birth?" | William Struse | ||
| 9db7bb9 | Maybe a thirteen-cycle period of time might explain the first part of verse 25. In all the commentaries of Daniel 9, few address it: 'Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks.' Clearly this indicates the Messiah comes after just seven 'weeks,' but then later in verse 26, it indicates he was 'cut off' after the sixty-ninth we.. | William Struse | ||
| 24c95fa | Nunca escrevi, e pensei que escrevia, nunca amei, e pensei que amava, nunca fiz nada a nao ser esperar diante da porta fechada. | Marguerite Duras |