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Letter "E" » earthly
«Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.»
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
(Writer)
| Keywords:
advanced, earthly, old woman, tame, uncontrollable, young woman
«The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents»
«There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.»
«To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.»
Author: Lillian Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
earthly, equilibrium, Faith in the Future, Get Ready, incomplete, lay down, Meeting Point, metamorphoses, One Power, shake off, uncertainties
«Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.»
«That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.»
«To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
Advances, connected, distinction, earthly
«This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.»
«There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
earthly, earthly life, eternities, forlorn, grotesque, grotesques, homeless, no Hell, vagrant, vagrants, wandering
«These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
earthly, fixed star, godfather, godfathers, The Godfather
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