Moses Quotes - Page 11

• My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

  Walter Annenberg

  Son, Born

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• When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

  Jerry Reed

  Family, Boys, Ties

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• Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Religion, Lines

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• Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.

  Don Feder

  May, Golden, Vote

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• I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Garden, Childhood

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• What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

  Adolph Saphir

  Writing, People, Calling

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• I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atheist, Plato, Believe

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.

  Arno Hintjens

  Book, Data, Goes On

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• When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

  Walter Cronkite

  Stars, Years, Ideas

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• Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Glowing, Vision

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• I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?

  Sophie Scholl

  Children, Night, Thinking

  "Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way" by Johann Christoph Arnold, (p. 155), 2000.

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• Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Prophet, Jacob

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.328

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• God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

  David Plotz

  Hero, People, Challenges

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Chinese, Imitation

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• Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Order, Years, Two

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.108, Zed Books Ltd.

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• By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

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• Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Style, Rivals

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.15

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• Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Egypt, Stills, Bureaucrats

  Laurence J. Peter (1986). “The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?”, William Morrow

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• I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, Politics

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Herman Cain compared his run for president to Moses leading his people out of Egypt. Cain said it took Moses 40 years to lead his people out of Egypt, but he could do it in 30 minutes or less.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Egypt, Years

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• At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

  Denis Diderot

  Plato, Atheism, Age

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• They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

  Augustin Misago

  Mean, Army, Miracle

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• Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Wall, Cheer

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• [Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Silly, Said, Ten Commandments

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