If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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WILLIAM E. B. DU BOIS Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
DON MARQUIS Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth
BIBLE Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them
JAMES THURBER The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. PAUL GETTY The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
JEAN PAUL GETTY The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth
MARK TWAIN The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introve...
JIM COUDAL Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
JESUS CHRIST Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The saying,"the meek shall inherit the earth," simply means,the person that serves more out of humil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
JENNY TROUT We are told that "the meek shall inherit the earth." It follows that the meek are chosen of God. I s...
JOHN BRUNNER I'm not sure that the meek will inherit the earth. I don't know if it is the community I'm in or the...
DOUG DAVIDSON I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
SYLVIA PLATH It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
KIN HUBBARD It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it
KIN HUBBARD As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignoranc...
ABERJHANI The meek may inherit the earth, but the other kind inherits the mortgage
NOAH GOLDSTEIN In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
BARBARA CORCORAN For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place...
BIBLE It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
KIN HUBBARD I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth...
without taxes
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not adapted to mo...
LEO TOLSTOY ...and the hidden shall inherit the Earth.
RADIKALMODERATE The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
CASSANDRA CLARE [W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
TONI CADE BAMBARA Sure, I could die in this house. But I believe in the Resurrection, that the righteous shall inherit...
ELKE DEMUYNCK I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
ANDRE HOLLAND Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever belie...
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ANONYMOUS I was blown away by the Big B and I want to be known as Big W.
WILL SMITH We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have ca...
BIBLE They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by th...
BIBLE Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace conf...
CASSANDRA CLARE I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag m...
KATHY REICHS Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into chang...
KAUI HART HEMMINGS There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of wr...
KAY CANNON Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
LEON URIS Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
LEON WIESELTIER I would compare him to Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois,
LEON LITWACK The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are gua...
ROSE ELIZABETH BIRD In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves ...
ERIC HOFFER My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... ...
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KIM STANLEY ROBINSON One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
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KURT BUSIEK I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.
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PAT ROBERTS That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets...
SAINT PATRICK Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
KELLY CORRIGAN This is the strangest life I have ever known.
JIM MORRISON And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
RUPERT BROOKE Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.
JACINTO BENAVENTE Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighb...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same smal...
KARIN SLAUGHTER My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters spea...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I wou...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Women know how to scare other women.
KARIN SLAUGHTER There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeho...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
KARIN SLAUGHTER There is no precedent for this, but there is no question who put this situation in motion. If they d...
CHRISTOPHER MCGRATH It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER And there are some of them who molest the Prophet and say: He is one who believes every thing that h...
QURAN Let ye who believes the world to be finite as he is fall to the deepest depths. Ye who fail to expan...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom t...
BIBLE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of such another day;
And since t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not,...
BIBLE And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters...
BIBLE At this time, everybody believes that anybody can play with anybody and do not get here by not belie...
DAVE LEWIS The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
BIBLE H-E-B is well known and we look forward to being able to align ourselves with such a venerated compa...
MARK SHAW And let not those who disbelieve think that Our granting them respite is better for their souls; We ...
QURAN Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let t...
RANDY PAUSCH And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...
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QURAN It’s a dangerous world and I have survived for 72 years by listening to what people are not saying...
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CHRIS RICHARD Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru, are seen to be unfaithful and evil.They shall be...
ATHARVA VEDA The Hero Path
We have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not on...
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E. W. HOWE Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found t...
E. W. HOWE The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling i...
E. W. HOWE Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. HOWE Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which d...
E. W. HOWE A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
E. W. HOWE Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. HOWE One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E. W. HOWE The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. HOWE Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
E. W. HOWE When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
E. W. HOWE The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
E. W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciat...
E. W. HOWE The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
W. E. CHANNING The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
E. W. DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. DIJKSTRA It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult...
E. W. HOWE Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. HOWE To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
E. W. HOWE Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. HOWE When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up...
E. W. HOWE A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. HOWE The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
E. W. HOWE There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
E. W. HOWE The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and ...
E. W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offen...
E. W. DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposur...
E. W. DIJKSTRA There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HOWE The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
E. W. HOWE The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at ...
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