Decreeing Quotes

#1. Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Gaston Bachelard

#2. She'd thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was - the choice they'd made to love each other.

Kresley Cole

#3. Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

James Madison

#4. Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.

Michael Gove

#5. There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Sue Grafton

#6. God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

John Milton

#7. When confronted with someone who appears to be in a perpetual state of outrage, it is tempting for other people to wind them up. Besides, I have always found the most vociferous guardians of morality on matters of sex are those who aren't getting any.

M.C. Beaton

#8. Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that's one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit - in Pam's mind - his own private condominium of coolness.

Elizabeth Strout

#9. Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

Tertullian

#10. If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

Graham Kendall

#11. What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I write here all I can, yet cannot express the fatigue I collapse under each night, worn to the bone with worry. I feel Hope and Fear beside me all the time, two woodsmen with a saw across my middle. They pull the saw in turns. It is everything I can do not to fall in two.

Eli Brown

#13. I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances," he said. "It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.

Donna Tartt

#14. The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Dennis Prager

#15. The only way to deal with the future is to make sure the present is okay.

David Levithan