Widows Quotes - Page 8

• God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Inspiring, Music, Thanksgiving

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• Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

  Isaiah

  Rights, Law, Issues

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.

  Ronald Wright

  Europe, Land, Civilization

  Ronald Wright (2005). “Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

  Deepa Mehta

  Children, India, Stills

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Ignorance, Men

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• There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

  Mark Twain

  Body, Praying, Kind

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.413, GENERAL PRESS

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• Showrunning is not a one-man job; it's literally impossible to do for one person. I have learned the hard way now from two seasons, one with Red Widow, and this, I can't control everything. I certainly have tried, but having an incredibly strong team around you, surrounding yourself with incredibly talented people, that is the trick, and I certainly had that for the first season here of Jessica Jones.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Strong, Jobs, Team

  Source: deadline.com

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• A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Heart, Chords

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.130, Vintage

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• Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. There's human beings killed on the other end. You never see them. You don't have to worry about them. You don't have to meet their widows. It's sort of an antiseptic warfare.

  Mark Shields

  Country, War, Perfect

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Reading, Technology, Iphone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Real, Years

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• The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

  Mark Steyn

  People, Three, Use

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.218, Regnery Publishing

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• Not only do we have the handsomest voice cast out there, along with the very lovely Black Widow, we also have an incredible voice cast, in terms of being able to handle the drama, the fun, the excitement and the promise that Marvel brings to every single one of our projects, which is epic adventure on the human spirit.

  Jeph Loeb

  Fun, Drama, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

  William Ralph Inge

  Age, Church, Next

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• A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Praying Mantis, Black

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Differences

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• They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

  Kenneth Roberts

  Art, War, Widows And Orphans

  Kenneth Roberts (1947). “Lydia Bailey”

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• We beg one hour of death, that neither she
  With widow's tears may live to bury me,
  Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear
  My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

  Ovid

  Death, Tears, May

  Ovid (1836). “Ovid”, p.259

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• What is a woman that you forsake her,
  And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
  To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Heart, Home

  'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) 'Harp Song of the Dane Women'

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• Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a commitment to peace and nonviolence, and care for women and widows and orphans. What has destroyed a coming together is men's interpretation of religion.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Religious, Teaching, Commitment

  Source: progressive.org

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• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Names, Two

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• When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, Kids, Math

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

  Tobsha Learner

  Women, Responsibility, Eccentric

  Tobsha Learner (2008). “Soul”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
  [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

  George Herbert

  Married, Thrice, Persons

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• children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

  Mary Borden

  Children, Maids, Affair

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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