Jephthah's Quotes

#1. Why did God allow Jephthah's foolish vow to run its course? (D*)

Gleason Archer

#2. You ought to realize, you take up very little space in the world as a whole - your body, that is; in reason, however, you yield to no one, not even to the gods, because reason is not measured in size but sense. So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals?

Epictetus

#3. Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

James Gates Percival

#4. There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

Malcolm X

#7. If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

Jaroslav Hasek

#10. Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart.

Frederick Buechner

#11. Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

Joan Johnston

#12. It's not about judging you, it's about changing your point of view.

Simone Milasas

#13. The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Mickey Mantle

#14. The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Robert Payne

#15. Of course, she doesn't make my dick hard ever time I look at her, so I guess it's a good thing she wasn't the one I got naked with a few hours ago, huh?

Christine Warren

#16. One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

Kathryn Lasky