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Letter "L" » lords
«The quality of debate [in the House of Lords] is pretty high - and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death»
Author: Donald Soper
(Methodist minister)
| Keywords:
after death, debate, House of Lords, In the House, lords
«Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins»
Author: William Pitt the younger
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
apt, corrupt, lords, unlimited
«This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, / From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: / From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: / And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Aphek, Baalgad, Canaanites, Ekron, Gittite, Hamath, Hermon, Lebanon, lords, Mount Hermon, northward, South Land
«Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: / For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.»
«To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
getaway, getaways, ignominious, lords, surprising, to a great extent, when the time comes
«When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women»
«This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords»
«The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bearing, decease, lords, prime, teeming with, wanton, wantons, widowed, wombs
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