"It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration."

-- A. B. Simpson

#Enough Quotes #Crosses Quotes #Decoration Quotes

“My beloved is mine and I am his.”
“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”

Source : Anna Sewell (2014). “BLACK BEAUTY: Fiction, Novel, Children's literature”, p.27, editionNEXT.com
“Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.”
“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.”
“Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.”
“The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.”

Source : "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.
“The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.”
“Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.”

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