"Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be."

-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Lord Quotes #Holy Quotes #Sinner Quotes

“People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.”

Source : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
“I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.”
“Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press
“I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.”
“You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.”
“Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”
“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.”

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