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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.


Irving Babbitt

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KELLY JONES The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of t...
THE DIVINE PYMANDER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and co...
EOWYN IVEY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
MARTY RUBIN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
BREE DESPAIN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak wh...
J.K. ROWLING Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future.
CHRIS WEITZ One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy...
J.K. ROWLING If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The power to stop your beneficiaries from quarreling over the content of your will when you are gone...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if th...
J.D. SALINGER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD

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NATALIE BABBITT My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in cl...
NATALIE BABBITT I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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NATALIE BABBITT The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because ...
NATALIE BABBITT I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school a...
NATALIE BABBITT Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next...
NATALIE BABBITT I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ...
NATALIE BABBITT I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fair...
NATALIE BABBITT My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if ...
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NATALIE BABBITT Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
NATALIE BABBITT We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation....
BRUCE BABBITT Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowst...
BRUCE BABBITT I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was...
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BRUCE BABBITT In recent years the Forest Service and land management agencies have been burning about 2 to 2 1/2 m...
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BRUCE BABBITT The study process was able to point us toward a balance, based on good science and broad consultatio...
BRUCE BABBITT With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the cu...
BRUCE BABBITT Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, ... Had those calculations been pro...
BRUCE BABBITT This is sacred ground, ... Americans come here to learn of their past . . . their heritage. It is ou...
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BRUCE BABBITT The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, ... ...
BRUCE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the hi...
NATALIE BABBITT Do not fear death... only the unlived life.
You don't have to live forever;
You just have to...
NATALIE BABBITT I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
BRUCE BABBITT No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pl...
BRUCE BABBITT Maybe the judgment of whether something is art or not should come from the viewer and not the doer.
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NATALIE BABBITT within the next several days -- hopefully during the coming week.
BRUCE BABBITT Mistakes were made, ... You don't prosecute people for making mistakes.
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BRUCE BABBITT You fought the good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning.
BRUCE BABBITT change the entire culture of prescribed fire and to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
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BRUCE BABBITT Barry Goldwater and the Grand Canyon stand together; both unique, both monumental, both among the ve...
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BRUCE BABBITT In the spirit of the Christmas season I'm delivering a gift to the mining industry,
BRUCE BABBITT the tens of millions of dollars.
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BRUCE BABBITT This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many pe...
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NATALIE BABBITT You can't spawn your way over a concrete dam,
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BOB BABBITT You learn right away what you do well, and what you don't.
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BOB BABBITT Cities in the Wilderness.
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BRUCE BABBITT What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy an...
BRUCE BABBITT Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that th...
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BRUCE BABBITT Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know....
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NATALIE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the hi...
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NATALIE BABBITT I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
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NATALIE BABBITT You dont have to live forever just live.
NATALIE BABBITT For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music ca...
NATALIE BABBITT ...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
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NATALIE BABBITT Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happ...
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NATALIE BABBITT The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? ...
NATALIE BABBITT How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him.
There was a pause. At last he said, 'Why...
NATALIE BABBITT And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.
NATALIE BABBITT For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough....
NATALIE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like th...
NATALIE BABBITT You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just ...
NATALIE BABBITT dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
NATALIE BABBITT Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, an...
NATALIE BABBITT Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.
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BRUCE BABBITT Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.
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BRUCE BABBITT We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destructio...
BRUCE BABBITT The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
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BRUCE BABBITT I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for gene...
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BRUCE BABBITT It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
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LUKE BABBITT It should be a lot of fun. I've never been out of the country before. It's just a great honor to be ...
LUKE BABBITT Sorry I didn't give a better showing. I didn't do anything well tonight. I didn't shoot well, I didn...
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IRVING PENN I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.
KYRIE IRVING Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
WASHINGTON IRVING There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad ...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
WASHINGTON IRVING The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
WASHINGTON IRVING Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
WASHINGTON IRVING There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayligh...
WASHINGTON IRVING Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
IRVING THALBERG A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
IRVING THALBERG The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ...
IRVING THALBERG Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
IRVING THALBERG Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
IRVING THALBERG Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
IRVING STONE The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development...
IRVING STONE The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
IRVING STONE I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to s...
IRVING STONE In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five ye...
IRVING STONE My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a visi...
IRVING STONE My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
IRVING STONE I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the inte...
IRVING STONE I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
IRVING STONE I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was c...
IRVING STONE There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his...
IRVING STONE I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first -...
IRVING KIRSCH Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN