Dead Sea Scrolls Quotes

#1. Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

Ron Rash

#2. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.

Jay Parini

#3. We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.

Joseph Shellim

#4. The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

Philip W. Comfort

#5. Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.

Brent Staples

#6. The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science - they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.

Billy Graham

#7. The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.

Geza Vermes

#8. The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.

Geza Vermes

#9. Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Norman Vincent Peale

#10. I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Simon Sinek

#11. I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he's gorgeous. A guy's got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time.

Terry Farrell

#12. This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

J.D. Salinger

#13. He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say!

Logan Crowe

#14. And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Frank Carlucci

#15. She says that what you did was a cry for help."
"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

Holly Black

#16. . . . and even the worst ice cream is better than no ice cream.

Leila Sales

#17. I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Melanie Fiona

#18. A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Quintilian