Veriest Quotes

#1. Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.

George MacDonald

#2. If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good.

Alexander MacLaren

#3. The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

Ellen G. White

#4. Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.

Arnold Bennett

#6. My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

Marge Piercy

#7. Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Michael Franti

#8. It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.

Rona Jaffe

#9. Everything is comprehended in comparison.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. In that case, do not expect to be rescued by the Red Army, Gorbachev said.

Ken Follett

#11. Society loves nothing better than a triumph.

Manda Collins

#12. When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Ulrich Beck

#13. In any area of the U.N. we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

Michelle Bachelet

#14. But truth is like the coyote. No matter how much society is bent on its destruction, it somehow always manages to survive, usually sneaking around the edges of civilization to avoid detection.

Kirk Mustard

#15. As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.

Michelle Kwan

#16. I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone.

Joanne Harris

#17. The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

Gautama Buddha

#18. You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

David Hyde Pierce

#19. The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.

Marek Halter

#20. The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

F. Murray Abraham