"Isnâ€™t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3Â Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."

-- Jonah

#Home Quotes #Fleeing Quotes #Lord Quotes

“We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best way to do that is to make sure that we can get Congress to adopt the American Jobs Act.”
“What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
“A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.”
“Today was a good day for Hill Air Force Base and Utah.”
“And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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