Quotes for All
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. \”But if they cannot contain \” Paul finally conceded then \”let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn.\” Which is perhaps the … Read more
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded–a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress. Frederick Tilney
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody’s business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in … Read more
Men she knew’? – she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Peter Shilton conceded five, you don’t get many of those to the dozen Des Lynam
You make a good point,’ Fletcher conceded. ‘See, there’s a reason why you’re the girl and I’m the boy. You think about things while I…’ ‘Don’t?’ ‘Exactly,’ he said happily. Derek Landy
Mischief nodded. ‘It’s true,’ he conceded. ‘You’re in the company of eight world-class thieves,’ he said, not without a little touch of pride. ‘Saints we are not.’ But then,’ said Deaux-Deaux, ‘who is?’ he thought on this. ‘Besides saints. Clive Barker
[Hillary] Clinton, she conceded. [Donald Trump] beat her. Chuck Todd
Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn’t an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British … Read more