"I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence."

-- Harold Bloom

#Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Greek Quotes

“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”

Source : Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”
“I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.”
“The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.”
“China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.”
“I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2006). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“The chickens have come home to roast.”

Source : "Twisted Wisdom" by Mieder, Wolfgang, Anna Tóthné Litovkina, University of Vermont, 1999.

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