Propitiated Quotes

#1. In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

Horace Mann

#2. As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
[Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

Ovid

#3. I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.

Lara Dutta

#4. Adultery is the injury of nature.

Plato

#5. He explained civilization to me. I mean how it looks to him. He's going to let it go on a little while longer. But it better be careful and not interfere with his private life. If it does, he's apt to make a phone call to God and cancel the order.

Raymond Chandler

#6. His voice reminded her [Azalea] of rich, thick cream, the sort one could add to any recipe to make it taste better.

Heather Dixon

#7. Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Alexis De Veaux

#8. I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. Authentic disciples love God, love people, and reproduce spiritually. These are the marks of Kingdom-minded men and women. They are consumed with love and purpose.

Bo Chancey

#11. I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Costa Georgiadis

#12. THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

Yasunari Kawabata

#13. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

#14. Empower your dreams with deadlines.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#15. A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Joseph Campbell

#16. Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Aristotle.