Abrogated Quotes

#1. It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#2. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Simmons

#3. All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Heinrich Heine

#4. All commandments that I give must be obeyed unless they are revoked by me or by my authority and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant for I the Lord am everlasting and my everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated nor done away with but stand forever.

John Taylor

#5. The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

Pope Benedict XIV

#6. Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence continues to hold that the sword verses (9:5 and also 9:29) have "abrogated, canceled, and replaced" those verses that call for "tolerance, compassion, and peace."32

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#7. Story, fantasy, still go on, and should go on. The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them, especially the happy ending.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. One is not born wise; one becomes it.

Matthieu Ricard

#9. The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold

Louis MacNeice

#10. In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Rex Stout

#11. When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Mardy Grothe

#12. You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga

#13. I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

Hannah Kearney

#14. The longing at the heart of attraction is for union with the Beautiful.

John O'Donohue

#15. "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

#16. When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.

Julian Schnabel

#17. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.

Isak Dinesen