"Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more."

-- Joseph Hall

#Adversity Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Bears Quotes

“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle”

Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.
“It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.”
“Iâ€™ll never retire as long as I liveâ€”thatâ€™s like retiring from life! Iâ€™ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If youâ€™re in good health, living is exciting on its own.”
“Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press
“I've heard a lot about you, Rose. Don't worry. It was all good." "No, it wasn't.”
“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
“How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.”
“We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.”

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