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Moses told me once that you can't escape yourself. You can run, hide, or die. But wherever you go, there you'll be. — Amy Harmon

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist. — Martin Luther

Life is what you make it. — Grandma Moses

The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history. — Paul Johnson

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. — Moses Coady

I don't want to kick people in the face with my music, I'm just vibing. It's a very cool vibe. — Teedra Moses

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone. — Kevin Barry

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of liberty! — George Moses Horton

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. — Robert Moses

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. — Barbara Kingsolver

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures. — Frances Harper

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days. — Moses Coady

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students. — J. Lynn

I would remember how I had wanted her and hated her and wished she would leave me alone and never let me go. And I would miss her. — Amy Harmon

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. — Graham Joyce

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything. — J. Oswald Sanders

Moses never called for a committee when the Egyptians were breathing down his neck. — Neil T. Anderson

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. — Michael Catt

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. — Ronald Reagan

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together. — Edwin Moses

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering. — Moses Ibn Ezra

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? — Abraham Cowley

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. — Charlton Heston

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. — Larry Flynt

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. — Grandma Moses

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson ... have taught man to look within himself to find God. — Ernest Holmes

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

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way. — Moses Malone

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". — Moses Finley

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. — Willie Nelson

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team. — Moses Malone

Critics build nothing — Robert Moses

When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it. — Moses Malone

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's. — Moses

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write. — Moses Malone

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. — Kirk Douglas

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? — Robert Moses

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large. — Edwin Moses

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

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition. — Edwin Moses

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent ... — Napoleon Bonaparte

I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton

Fear not! Stand your ground ... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still. — Moses

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory. — Edwin Moses

I'll always be Number 1 to myself. — Moses Malone

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets! — Karl Marx

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. — Moses Harvey

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. — Moses Mendelssohn

Never leave fish to find fish. — Moses

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace. — Ravi Zacharias

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. — Ridley Scott

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues. — Moses Ibn Ezra

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. — Moses Mendelssohn

Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them! — Moses

A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center. — Joseph Bottum

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses) — Robert A. Caro

Judaism was not a religion but a law. — Moses Mendelssohn

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and ... both of them were independents, by the way. — Kinky Friedman

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. — Grandma Moses

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people. — Moses Malone

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe. — Moses Hess

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God. — Martin Luther

Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. — Moses

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue. — Moses

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley

If God has a best friend (and why not?), then surely it is Moses. (pg. 46) — Ellen F. Davis

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference. — Michael Moses

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. — Pope Paul VI

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business. — James Brown

Moses knows that prosperity breeds amnesia. — Walter Brueggemann

For every Pharoah there is a Moses. — Idries Shah

The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was. — Matthew Henry

My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart. — George Moses Horton

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. — John Wycliffe

I am not eloquent. — Moses

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship. — Edwin Moses

I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on - just as I promised Moses. — Mark Batterson

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing. — Edwin Moses

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose. — Moses Harvey

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin. — Robert Orben

When it comes to defining beauty, we need to embrace uniqueness. Remember: it's the imperfections that make the charm. — Rebecca Moses

I have read your book and much like it. — Moses Hadas

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses

[God] has established for you [the Arabs] the same religion enjoined on Noah, on Abraham, on Moses, and on Jesus, the Quran says (42:13). — Reza Aslan

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. — Grandma Moses

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue. — Moses

Africa has her mouth on Moses. — Zora Neale Hurston

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money. — Moses Malone

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. — Robert Moses

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete. — Edwin Moses

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. — Moses Ibn Ezra

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. — Laurence J. Peter

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley

Life is the offspring of death. — Moses Harvey