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.
And
Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle,
and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the
people said, God save king Solomon. 1 Kings, 1. 39
Then
will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them;
and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast
out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people. 1 Kings, 9. 7
And
when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom…there
was no more spirit in her. 1 Kings, 10. 4
Behold,
the half was not told me. 1 Kings, 10. 7
Once
in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 1 Kings, 10. 22
But
king Solomon loved many strange women. 1 Kings, 11. 1
My
little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings, 12. 10
My
father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions. 1 Kings, 12. 11
To
your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. 1 Kings, 12. 16
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