"Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around."

-- Jean M. Auel

#Book Quotes #Simple Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“...tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.”

Source : Thomas Burnet (1697). “The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it Hath Already Undergone, Or is to Undergo Till the Consummation of All Things ...”, p.18
“We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.”
“My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!”
“I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
“While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.”

Source : Ronald H. Nash (1992). “The Word of God and the Mind of Man”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company
“My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.”
“Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.”
“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”

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