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“Others have suggested that the disciples deliberately lied, thus spreading the story that Jesus had risen from the dead in order to keep their movement going. But this becomes preposterous when we remember that the disciples were willing to die rather than to deny that Jesus rose from the dead. Some say that they just cannot believe “the story of the miracle." But the trouble is, that they must then decide what to do with the “miracle of the story." That is, they are left with the insoluble problem of how such a sober story could ever have been written. The story is either true, or else it is the product of insanity or wickedness. And, after nearly two thousand years, no one has been able to show that it comes from either insane or wicked men. No satisfactory explanation has come forth except to believe that it actually did happen.”
“Others have the right to criticize you unfairly. And you have the right to ignore them.”
“Others, however, would look over the children as if they were produce. They’d only speak to the nearest officer, never lowering their eyes to the young ones. Instead, they looked down their noses as though to distance themselves. “I’ll take these,” Helen would see them mouth, waving a finger above the small heads. It was a moment the children would have branded on their minds, Helen was sure of it, and the pain of it turned her stomach to lead.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.
More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their veins in ice and fire
Fear contended with desire.
Agued once like me were they,
But I like them shall win my way
Lastly to the bed of mould
Where there's neither heat nor cold.
But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the suffocating night.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
Source: The Works of George Berkeley: Philosophical works
“Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening.”
Source: Lost in the Funhouse
“Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'”
“Others living with avoidant persons will often say the worst thing is that they can’t give to them. This, too, is regulated comfort, love, support; an adult patient stated his worst experience with his avoidant ill mother was not being allowed to comfort her. Turning off the I care for you or quickly withdrawing for no apparent reason is very confusing. They may show great care when others need it, which is often what the AVPs want themselves. Phrases such as I can’t, You do it, That’s past, I don’t have time are used frequently in relationships. When a spouse “quits,” there is a sense from the AVP of I get to quit. AVPs no longer need to be responsible. Ah, but wait—there is no one to take care of … or … take care of me.”
Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“Others look different to us, because we are distant, the moment we get close to them, we'd discover that the differences are either inconsequential or an illusion altogether.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!”
“Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.”
Source: Chainfire
“Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.”
“Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.”
“Others may contest your will, when it is turned to madness and evil.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."”
“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.”
“Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!”
“Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.”
“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
“Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.”
“Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.”
“Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.”
“Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.”
“Others may take away your means of support, they may take away your opportunity to grow and may even cause you to doubt your self-worth. But only you can give away your dignity, only you can give away your voice to proclaim who you really are, and only you can give away those pieces of your soul that make you human and determine your character.”
“Others may thrive in dialogue, I do not. My true place is a quiet room, where words can rest long enough to gather meaning.”
Source: The Uncharted Mind
“Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.”
“Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.”
“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds of material. They maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them. They crown these images, and set them up along with the images of the philosophers of the world, such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle, and the rest. They have also other modes of honoring these images just like the Gentiles.”
“Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“Others opinion of me, is not God’s truth.”
“Others' paths cross ours to love, hate, teach, learn, take, give, encourage, discourage and so forth. I cross paths to positively leave a trail that no one can ever fill.”
“Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.”
“Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.”
Source: The River King
“Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.”
“Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.”
Source: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
“Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.”
“Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.”
Source: Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum
“Others who continue looking for more meaningful activities and re-establish a new mission in their life after retirement, tend to stay mentally lucid even until their last breath.”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“Others who habitually do their duty and find a sullen satisfaction in making themselves and everybody else unhappy, might have withstood it.”
Source: The Yellow Sign
“Others who openly discuss matters of spirituality often ignore the warning signs. They are so in love with each other, enjoy being with each other, and can see themselves making each other happy for the rest of their lives, and they close their eyes to huge differences in their views of spirituality.”
Source: Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
“Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.”
“Others will tend to try to be an influencer in many various ways, basically in order to obtain some result that is of personal benefit for them in one way or another.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“Others words can only affect us if we give them worth with our reaction.
By remembering that it's usually the ones who are hurting, that hurt others.
We are all searching in the darkness,
Holding out our hand ready to hold each other again...When we learn to forgive.”
Source: Your Light Is The Key
“Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.”