Quotes for All
I think what’s been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that’s really what’s going on everywhere. Eve Ensler
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God’s conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn’t get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests. Eugene H. Peterson
The Lives of Great Men are more oft’ at variance with their profess’d Phillosophies than consistent with ’em. Erica Jong
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions Edward Coke
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected–so entirely novel–so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions–as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics … Read more
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it. Fyodor Tyutchev
… at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. Dorothy L. Sayers
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money. Dorothy L. Sayers
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance – a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage – forget it. … Read more
My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha’e any dependence upon–they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi’ which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as … Read more