Top 27 Quotes About Alexandrian
#1. You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.
Stacy Schiff
#2. - you can't even find any two Alexandrian Bibles that agree with each other.
David W. Daniels
#3. The Alexandrian School In opposition to the previously named Church Fathers, the Alexandrians openly embraced Greek philosophy, thought of it as being of divine origin, and brought its allegorizing technique into their exegesis.
Anonymous
#4. To one visitor Alexandrian life was just one continuous revel, not a sweet or gentle revel either, but savage and harsh, a revel of dancers, whistlers, and murderers all combined.
Stacy Schiff
#6. The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.
Amos Smith
#7. Know what happened to these Alexandrian manuscripts? The Roman Catholics used them as the foundation for their Bible. Then they spent nine centuries hunting down the real Bible to destroy it. But faithful Christians protected it - even with their blood.
David W. Daniels
#8. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. Few sciences are as rooted in shame, infamy, and bad PR as human anatomy. The troubles began in Alexandrian Egypt, circa 300 B.C. King Ptolemy I was the first leader to deem it a-okay for medical types to cut open the dead for the purpose of figuring out how bodies work.
Mary Roach
#10. The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
Gary Wolf
#11. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.
Amos Smith
#12. A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.
Thomas Fuller
#13. The Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.
Stacy Schiff
#15. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...
Joseph McCabe
#16. There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.
Euripides
#17. So he pointed to the unit patch on his uniform shirt and said, "U.S. . . . Air Force . . . American." The sturdy, gray-haired woman nodded and seemed relieved, understanding Musgrove. The women nodded their heads and pointed to themselves, saying, "Yugoslavian.
Gregory A. Freeman
#18. Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.
Isla Fisher
#19. Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
David Eagleman
#20. There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.
Anna Funder
#21. There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.
Eduardo Paes
#22. Courage like Daniel's only comes from God." Leith leaned a hand against the tabletop. "Daniel didn't keep praying and trusting because he had courage. He had courage because he prayed and trusted.
Tricia Mingerink
#23. The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.
Jhonen Vasquez
#24. I believe in you," she blurted, tears in her eyes. "I just ... I want you to know that despite everything ... I believe in you.
Rachel Van Dyken
#25. Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.
Rick Yancey
#26. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Salmon P. Chase
#27. Just so you know," Bubby says before returning to his seat, "if I had been there, I would have carried you to the hospital on my back.
Gwendolyn Heasley
