#his

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#bush #god #his #hurts #kill

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#country #home #odd #state #whistle

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#difficult #historical #how #know #light

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. ↗

— Origen

#also #barbarians #debtor #deliver #easily

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men. ↗

— Origen

#also #angels #certain #church #god

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels. ↗

— Origen

#angels #away #become #called #devil

When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. ↗

— Origen

#act #away #come #go #go away