::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.

::" Buechner's theological efforts are never systematic treatises but instead short, highly literary productions in most of which he draws explicit links with fiction-writing generally and his own fiction in particular ... Buechner's 1969 Noble Lectures at Harvard, published in 1970 as The Alphabet of Grace, comprise a slender volume which is one of his most important and revealing works.

::" Ever since the publication of A Long Day's Dying ... Frederick Buechner has one of our most interesting and least predictable writers.

::" In the pharmaceutical industry, a blockbuster drug is one that achieves acceptance by prescribing physicians as a therapeutic standard for, most commonly, a highly prevalent chronic ( rather than acute ) condition.

::" Wonderful to say, this greatly desiderated and almost unhoped for curative agent not only exists in Nature, but is an essential element in the human constitution, varying in different persons, of course, like all other bodily and mental gifts ; and most persons possess the power of curing others, or of being themselves cured occasionally, by an inherent sanative influence propagatable between different individuals: for health is transmissible as well as disease, it appears.

::" We took him and Pepe Arenzana to Ayod, where most of the time were in a feeding center where locals go.

::" To form a proper idea of the spirit, the character, and the customs of a Nation, almost unknown in Europe, I deemed it preferable to represent them in their own dress, rather than to enter myself into particular details, always infected by the manner of considering the facts, notwithstanding the utmost endeavors to be guided by truth in the most essential parts.

::" Aquinas, Augustine, St. Bernard, Bhagavad-Gita, Buddha, Jean Pierre Camus, St. Catherine, Christ, Chuang Tzu, “ Cloud of Unknowing ,” Contemplation, Deliverance, Desire, Eckhart ( five lines, the most quoted person ), Eternity, Fénelon, François de Sales, Godhead, Humility, Idolatry, St. John of the Cross, Knowledge, Lankavatara Sutra, William Law ( another four lines ), Logos, Love, Mahayana, Mind, Mortification, Nirvana, Perennial Philosophy ( six lines, a total of 40 entries in all ), Prayer, Rumi, Ruysbroeck, Self, Shankara, Soul, Spirit, “ Theologia Germanica ,” Truth, Upanishads ( six different ones are quoted ), Will, Words.

::" The war between Chalcis and Eretria was the one in which most cities belonging to the rest of Greece were divided up into alliances with one side or the other.

::" Senate people-and Roman " = " The Senate and Roman people "

::" O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we

::" I need very much to feel the warmth of my people around me, there is work to be done and I will get the strength from my people to finish the business.

::" I wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament, which had been his Bible, and the New Testament, which was the Bible about him ; about the history of the church, which had been founded on the faith that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature and his purpose for the world, but had released into the world a fierce power to draw people into that nature and adapt them to that purpose …. No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused in me such intense curiosity, and much more than my intellect was involved, much more than my curiosity aroused.

::" Godric came as mysteriously alive for me as Bebb had and, with him, all the people he knew and the whole medieval world he lived in.

::" The Muhammedans, an alien people ,... by shylockian methods become prosperous like Jews.

::" We love our children, but it's weird when you consider that in the next century, you're going to have people in nursing homes with names like Heather and Debbie.

::" Mr. Speaker: If the will of the people is to prevail, if justice is to be done, there can be no question of my expulsion from the house.

::" The tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and God Himself shall be with them, and shall be their God, and they shall be his people.

::" For the people of the West.

::" During a certain period in the not too distant past, Japan, following a mistaken national policy, advanced along the road to war, only to ensnare the Japanese people in a fateful crisis, and, through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations.

::" To achieve future prosperity, we need more and talented people.

::" Who was the fool, who the wise,

::" Are you the Katherine MacLean who wrote ' Incommunicado '?

::" There are many who have achieved in the world of politics, business or academia who can trace their success to the years they spent at LSE.

::" I was reading a magazine as I waited my turn at a barber shop one day when, triggered by a particular article and the photographs that went with it, there floated up out of some hitherto unexplored subcellar of me a character who was to dominate my life as a writer for the next six years and more.

::" Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve eternal salvation " ( Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, 16 ).

::" One day the circle of those who sat at the feet of Seyyid Kázim was augmented by a fresh arrival.

::" He is a notorious terrorist, and we have very clearly and publicly announced what is going to happen to notorious terrorists who commit heinous crimes of the type Mr. Basayev has been involved in.

::" In the years when our Country was in mortal danger, ( name ) who served ( dates ) gave generously of his time and powers to make himself ready for her defence by force of arms and with his life if need be.

::" all who owned property or houses sold them and lay them at the feet of the apostles to be distributed to everyone according to his need.

::" The great majority of those who have carefully investigated the subject have come to the conclusion that there exists in man, as one of his constituent principles, a certain subtle element, known by the names of animal electricity, animal magnetism, galvanism, the nervous energy, the nervous fluid, etc.

::" You, the class of 1990 ... How do you feel about your valedictorian with the 4. 9 Grade Point Average who arrived in this country six months ago speaking no English in a rowboat from Saigon?

::" It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you.

::" To the memory of Lieutenant Jacques Charlot " ( who transcribed Ravel's four-hand piece Ma mère l ' oye for solo piano )

::" Permission to fight is given to those who are fought against because they have been wronged-truly Allah has the power to come to their support-those who were expelled from their homes without any right, merely for saying, ' Our Lord is Allah '..." ( Quran, 22: 39-40 )"

::" Ultra-alien aliens resembling large dots in large bottles-and the Earthmen who try to communicate with them ..." Panther Edition blurb.

::" You should be thankful you are not in the Old Testament times, because there are some of us who would gladly execute you.

::" Ensete is totally involved in every aspect of the daily social and ritual life of the Gurage, who, with several others tribes in Southwest Ethiopia, form what has been termed the Ensete Culture Complex area ... the life of the Gurage is enmeshed with various uses of ensete, not the least of which is nutritional.

::" Lucullus, indeed, and Drusus and Octavius, and Cato and the whole house of Hortensii, since he held them bound by close social ties, he was treated by them with the highest of honors ; for not only did everyone cultivate his friendship who devoted to hear and to take in anything they did, but even those who only pretended.

::" If anyone imagines that we are stating the case too strongly, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy he meets by asking,

::" Where, oh where, are you tonight?

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

::" The principle of utility does not mean that any given pleasure, as music, for instance, or any given exemption from pain, as for example health, are to be looked upon as means to a collective something termed happiness, and to be desired on that account.

::" In a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy.

::" Nice old, soft bits of good Turkish towelling, properly washed, will make the softest of diaper coverings, inside which specially absorbent napkins ( diapers ), see below at 1A, soft, light, and easily washed, are contained.

::" There are men in the village of Erith that nobody seeth or heareth,

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

::" If they are not there,

::" Reading is like eating ; the benefits are not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.

::" Positive feedback loops are sources of growth, explosion, erosion, and collapse in systems.

::" Most of you in here are of my vintage: we're ignored by the media.

::" Sacred for lovers of art, you are the glory of faith,

::" The Flowers of the Forest are a ' wede away ".

::" The orders I propose to make are of special significance as they constitute the first recognition and protection of native title resulting in the ongoing enjoyment of native title in the State of Victoria and, it would appear, on the South-Eastern seaboard of Australia.

::" Just as we deem the legislative intent manifest to tax the stockholder with respect to such accumulations only if and when, and to the extent that, his interest in them comes to fruition as income, that is, in dividends declared, so we can perceive no constitutional obstacle that stands in the way of carrying out this intent when dividends are declared out of a pre-existing surplus.

::" All things are from Him, through Him and in Him.

::" What are you reading now?