"When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify."

-- Ovid

#Lightning Quotes #Doe Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.56, Open Road Media
“Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.”

Source : "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".
“Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words â€œteeny weeny.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.13, Penguin UK
“I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.”
“Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.”
“Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?”
“The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.”

Source : Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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