Famous Quotes and Proverbs

«Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity»

«All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making»

«Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.»

«Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.»

«Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by»

«Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.»

«By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise»

«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»

«And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? / And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? / And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.»

«As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ»