prehensible Quotes and Quotations
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prehensible Quotes and Quotations
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar | top
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. Jorge Luis Borges | top
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. Kingman Brewster, Jr. | top
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. Poppy Z. Brite | top
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If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. James L. Buckley | top
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Some of my instincts are reprehensible. William F. Buckley, Jr. | top
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All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. Jacques Ellul | top
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Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible. John Ensign | top
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I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all. Robin Gibb | top
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I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. Jurgen Habermas | top
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco | top
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. Karl Jaspers | top
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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing. Nicholas D. Kristof | top
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Letitia Landon | top
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. Blaise Pascal | top
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It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. James Payn | top
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Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. Karl Radek | top
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Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about. Michael Scheuer | top
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me. Wallace Shawn | top
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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert South | top
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. Queen Victoria | top
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution. An Wang | top
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. Robert Anton Wilson | top
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A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. Jim Woodring | top