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Quotes About Source

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.
~ Mary Morrissey
new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve their's.
~ Mary Shelley
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence.
~ Ayn Rand
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.' 'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.
~ Ayn Rand
The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.
~ Ayn Rand
Debo recordarte también que el derecho a la vida es la fuente de la que manan todos los derechos, incluido el derecho de propiedad.
~ Ayn Rand
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
~ Barack Obama
it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control.
~ Barry Schwartz
God was the ultimate source of all that was divine. But there were lower divinities as well. Even within monotheistic Judaism.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
7. This is a consensus view among scholars today. For one thing, Matthew used Mark as a source for many of his stories, copying out the Greek word for word in some passages. If our Matthew was a Greek translation of a Hebrew original, it would not be possible to explain the verbatim agreement of Matthew with Mark in the Greek itself.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Since this other source was mainly made up of sayings, these (German) scholars called it the Sayings Source. The word for source in German is Quelle, and so scholars today speak about "Q"—the lost source that provided Matthew and Luke with much of their sayings material.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Matthew and Luke had another source available to them that provided them with these non-Markan passages. Since this other source was mainly made up of sayings, these (German) scholars called it the Sayings Source. The word for source in German is Quelle, and so scholars today speak about "Q"—the lost source that provided Matthew and Luke with much of their sayings material.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
If a story is found in several of these independent traditions, then it is far more likely that this story goes back to the ultimate source of the tradition, the life of Jesus itself. This is called the criterion of independent attestation.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
In no first-century Greek or Roman (pagan) source is Jesus mentioned. Scholars
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Explora tu corazón con diligencia, pues de él fluyen las fuentes de la vida».
~ Stephen R. Covey
Although the church claims to teach people about the source of power, it does not claim to be that power itself. It claims to be one vehicle through which divine power can be channeled into man's nature.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Affirmation and visualization are forms of programming, and we must be certain that we do not submit ourselves to any programming that is not in harmony with our basic center or that comes from sources centered on money-making, self interest, or anything other than correct principles.
~ Stephen R. Covey
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." –Henry David Thoreau
~ Stephen R. Covey
concerning what I believe to be the source of correct principles. I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
~ Stephen R. Covey
All power is an articulation of its wielder. There is no other source than life—and the desire of that life to express itself.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
forgiveness, of course, coming only from one source. The church.
~ Steve Berry
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
~ Dante Alighieri
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
~ Mahmoud Mohammed Taha