Decalogue Quotes

#1. DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this: Their God is your God, their friends are your friends, their debts are your debts, their enemies are your enemies and their fate is your fate.

George Friedman

#3. The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Noah Webster

#4. Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

William Wordsworth

#5. The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.

James Mikolajczyk

#6. It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#7. In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always.

Susan Sontag

#9. President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.

David Letterman

#10. Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Catherine Deneuve

#11. I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

Ronnie Dunn

#12. Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures.

Ann Coulter

#13. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

Angela Carter

#14. You don't even know what your mere presence does to me. You're my sanity.

Linda Kage

#15. No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

James Mattis

#16. You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

Daisy Fuentes

#17. Every economic ... acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

Pope Francis

#18. This is the problem with pussy: When you want it you can't get it, and when you don't want it, you get it and then you can't get it out of your fucking head.

K. Bromberg

#19. The dead govern the living.

Auguste Comte

#20. It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly.

John Piper