Top 147 Writ Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
Words writ in waters.
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
The world is a great poem, and the world's
The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms.
Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
The prison is the state writ small.
Government is a gang of thieves writ large.
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
I'll read enough
When I do see the very book indeed
Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
For you are abstract,
making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air.
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
For there was never yet philosoper
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However they have writ the style of gods,
And made a push at chance and sufferance.
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.
The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
War is murder writ large.
I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
Kids are anarchy writ large.
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.
And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
