Quotes of: Tracts Keyword

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

A Tract on Monetary Reform

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts Which Have Been Already Published: With a Select Collection

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Mary Ann Mobley

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race. Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiast...

Truth Seeker Tracts Upon a Variety of Subjects, by Different Authors

I paid the cabman exactly his fare. He received it with an oath; upon which I instantly gave him a tract. If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation. He jumped up on his box, and, ...

The Moonstone

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

Gordon B. Hinckley

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

Tim LaHaye

The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and ar...

Charlie Trotter

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

Joan D. Vinge

Plainview: What's this? Why don't I own this? Why don't I own this? Al Rose: That's the Bandy tract. He was the holdout, when we were doing the buying? He had hoped to speak with you. Can't you just build the pipeline around this tract? Plainview: Ca...

There Will Be Blood

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

James Altucher

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Frank Gehry

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

Jami Attenberg

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Thomas Hobbes

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

Junipero Serra

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Taliesin

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Joseph Lancaster

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Daniel Boone

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

Kenneth Fisher