Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
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Bible - Acts of the Apostles Quotes, Acts of the Apostles Quotations
Ye
men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Acts of the Apostles, 1. 11
And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire. Acts of the Apostles, 2. 2
Parthians,
and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and
in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya
about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
wonderful works of God. Acts of the Apostles, 2. 9
And
all that believed were together, and had all things common. Acts of the Apostles, 2. 44
Silver
and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee. Acts of the Apostles, 3. 6
Walking,
and leaping, and praising God. Acts of the Apostles, 3. 8
It
is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve
tables. Acts of the Apostles, 6. 2
The
witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose
name was Saul. Acts of the Apostles, 7. 58
Saul
was consenting unto his death. Acts of the Apostles, 8. 1
Thy
money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift
of God may be purchased with money. [St. Peter to Simon Magus] Acts of the Apostles, 8. 20