“Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!” ThinkingMomentsBigsLastsBirthPeriodsHorrorConscienceFilledPlotAnxiousIntervalsFilled Up Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.” IdeasUsedChurchReligiousGreaterStupidPeriodsConceptsFilledTerrorIntenseMinistersEverlastingExtinctionVisitingSixteenNever EndingBanquetsEverlasting Life Book:East Side Story: A Novel Source: East Side Story: A Novel
“Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.” YearsGivenSubjectsPeriodsOne DayProjectsFilledFilesLengthy Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.” PeopleYearsChildrenLongIdeasParentCitiesWrittenOughtPeriodsWorshipYears AgoFilledPropertyAbsurdGatesLong AgoRejectedHomosexualFalse Gods Author:John Shelby Spong