I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I? Votes: 4
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] Votes: 3
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] Votes: 3
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it. Votes: 2
Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch! Votes: 2
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. Votes: 2
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. Votes: 2
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson. Votes: 2
It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice. Votes: 2
The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing. Votes: 2
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread. Votes: 2
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination. Votes: 2
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again. Votes: 2
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Votes: 2
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. Votes: 2
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God. Votes: 2
My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch. Votes: 2
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Votes: 2
There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That narrative on "Keeping up with the Kardashians," the answer is, they're pretty much fine. It's the same sort of story we were telling which is, you know what? Everybody's okay. Votes: 2
The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do? Votes: 2
The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace. Votes: 2
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future. Votes: 2
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. Votes: 0
[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church. Votes: 0
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsÂbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. Votes: 0
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. Votes: 1 Adam Weishaupt