Quotes About Dirges

#1. Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

Honorius Augustodunensis

#2. Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

Henry Van Dyke

#4. The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

John Gay

#5. For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Viswanathan Anand

#6. An analysis of Scripture is all right as long as it is in a very subordinate position, and as long as we are careful it does not so grip us, that we become interested only in an objective, intellectual sense. It is a unique Word, and it must not be approached just as any other book is approached.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#7. Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

Esther Perel

#8. It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Phyllis Schlafly

#9. Whatever the enemy has stolen from you, God will restore it and make it better than before! Claim this promise for you and your family!

Paul Silway

#10. Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs ...

Gary Johnson

#12. I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

Paula Cole

#13. ...she had enough experience around testosterone to know the shit going through a man's head at any given moment should never be revealed for public consumption. Especially female public.

Terri Osburn

#14. I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.

Trinny Woodall

#15. I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently, my mouth open and my hands on my head.

Yann Martel

#16. The Six Ways of Ruling are about being benevolent, true, genuine, fearless, artful, and rejoicing.

Lodro Rinzler

#17. Necessity knows no law.

Mark Twain

#18. Oo, you are so sharp you'll cut yourself one of these days

Terry Pratchett

#19. I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Marco Rubio