Quotes About Proclamations

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.

I love you.' 'Yeah, well...' 'You make my heart want to beat.' 'That's nice and creepy. But I'm with Fletcher.(...) Also, these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of... it's a bit much to be honest. Just hold back a little.' 'But my love for you is eternal.' 'That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Also, all these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of… It's a bit much, to be honest. Just hold back a little." "But my love for you is eternal." "That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Knowing that more people associate Chicago with street violence than generosity is difficult for me because, despite all my proclamations of being from the Bay Area, I have spent much of my life in Chicago. So I have a deep love and a pretty good understanding of the city.

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations.

On religious propaganda] Proclamations, gestures, articles of clothing, talismans, et cetera, become, through this propaganda, not symbolic of a belief but the demonstration of the belief itself.

Here Cornelius stopped and heaved a sigh. And yet, he continued, it would have been so very delightful to spend the hundred thousand guilders on the enlargement of my tulip-bed or even on a journey to the East, the country of beautiful flowers. But, alas! these are no thoughts for the present times, when muskets, standards, proclamations, and beating of drums are the order of the day.

nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.

Ni pensaba yo que tus proclamas tuvieran tanta fuerza que permitieran a un mortal transgredir las leyes no escritas e inmutables de los dioses.

Mani's preaching developed into Manichaeism, a religion that spread throughout the Middle East and influenced Western thinking. If you think about politics in a Manichaean way, then compromise is a sin. God and the devil don't issue many bipartisan proclamations, and neither should you.

formal declaration of jihad in Constantinople, followed by well-organized demonstrations on the streets."32 Proclamations and pamphlets were distributed.

Ya estamos completamente acostumbrados a las falsas proclamaciones públicas de los políticos. Pero los votantes también mienten.

Proclamations and policy changes on paper will not create the fundamental changes to DNA that organizations need to catalyze change.

We're very bold in our proclamations of our own moral rectitude, but then we neglect to even keep our own toilets clean.

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Samuel L. Lewis] ... [I]n a world claiming to be Christian to some degree, no teachings have been more ignored than the social proclamations of Jesus. This can no longer be. The dualism between theory and practice has created a chasm in the body politic, the wound of which can no longer be healed.

big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.

Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII's act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547.

Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.

This experience, Lick would say, gave him an instant insight into the scientific method: Always be extremely careful in your work—and in your proclamations of faith.

the economic aim of debt jubilees was to restore solvency to the population as a whole. Many royal proclamations also freed businesses from various taxes and tariff duties, but the main objective was political and ideological. It was to create a fair and equitable society.