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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.


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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND Vigny, more secret
As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.
N.B.: Vigny refers...
CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY God is always on the side of the big battalions.
VOLTAIRE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VOLTAIRE Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
DIANE HAMMOND The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current ...
VICTOR J. STENGER God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY A real devil among devils.
ANNE RICE If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...
NEIL GAIMAN Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standi...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him—the sensation of being...
JENN MARIE THORNE What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co...
J.I. PACKER The little dogs are allowed on the big-dog side, but the big dogs aren't allowed on the little-dog s...
HOLLY SWOAPE Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER True Christianity consists only in pure faith, love, and an holy life; which holiness of life spring...
JOHANN ARNDT God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today ...
DILLON BURROUGHS Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The biggest question in life is: 'what's for dinner tonight?'
AARON SANTOS To have a philosophical view on what time is, we would have to go outside the box and look at the bi...
GARY F EVANS... But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ...
DADA BHAGWAN Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always...
ALEX SHEARER Maybe we do go home, finally.
ANNE RICE The most painful tears aren't the ones that form on your eyes and roll down your face,washing away y...
MICHAEL HAYSSUS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.
ANNE RICE Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...
MALCOLM X Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ...
NORMAN LEAR Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to br...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR