David Barnett Quotes

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

preserved in the amber of his memory for ever,

Whatever humanity I had has been fucked out of me with a giant heavenly dildo.” The man gave Dew a wink. “But I guess you’d know about that, right?” “Don’t

Our goal, as lovers of God and students of His word, is to embrace the truth of the whole counsel of God recognizing that the truth is always more glorious than error. 

Never forget that God is the One Who must empower His servants. Nothing done apart from Him will last, for only what is connected to the Lord can have any eternal value.

Reactions. That’s what Major Tom said. Science is all about reactions. Chemistry is about reactions – potassium in water. Physics is about reactions – how a light comes on when you flip a switch. Even biology is about reactions – how Ellie said one thing with her mouth when he asked if Delil was her boyfriend, but the subtle physiological changes, the reddening of her cheeks, the momentary dilation of her pupils, said another. Reactions.

Belief in the Divinity of Haile Selassie Chevannes (1998a) observed that the most important belief of the Rastafari is that Haile Selassie, the late Emperor of Ethiopia, is God, thus leading to the Rastafari claim that God is Black. In the same vein, Henry observed that the foundation of Rastafari theology is the mystical knowledge of the divinity of Haile Selassie (1997, 160). However, there appears to be divergent views among Rastafari regarding the divinity of Haile Selassie. Thus, Barnett (2005) claims that the original Twelve Tribes of Israel teachings hold that Jesus Christ was manifested in his second coming in the person of Haile Selassie; the Bobo Shanti hold that Haile Selassie is the father of Jesus Christ (who is Prince Emmanuel, the founder of the house, so far as the Bobo Shanti are concerned); and the Nyahbinghi Order holds that Haile Selaisse is the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost). The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church (a mansion that occupies a marginal status in the movement) does not accept the divinity of Haile Selassie I, although they still believe that he is of the Solomonic dynasty, thereby linking him with King David and therefore to Christ (Barnett 2005).

But people only remember the very good times, and the very bad times.

All happy families are alike, but all bug-fuck stupid dysfunctional families are bug-fuck stupid dysfunctional in their own way.

What problem can science solve for you? What one thing would make your life better, right now? Think of a problem, then solve it like nobody else has thought about solving it. What would make your life better?

As an example of the scale of this issue, a 2015 study found that over 27,000 domain names had been most probably registered specifically by fraudsters for use in phishing attacks, in the second half of 2014 alone (APWG, 2015).

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

The thing is, I only remembered the bad stuff. It blotted out the good stuff to the point where I didn't even know it had happened. There was good in everything. In everybody. I just chose not to see it.

We're not trapped by mistakes, Thomas, whether they're ours or other people's. We learn from them.

She'd say never let anyone you love out of your sight if you've had a row.

Of the phishing sites identified in the second half of 2014, more than half were found to have remained active for more than 10 hours, with a mean uptime of almost 30 hours.

Of the phishing sites identified in the second half of 2014, more than half were found to have remained active for more than 10 hours, with a mean uptime of almost 30 hours. In total, 569 distinct institutions were found to have been targeted by phishing attacks during this period (APWG, 2015).

Nearly 450,000 distinct phishing attacks were identified in 2013, resulting in a total estimated financial loss of almost US $6 billion (RSA, 2014).

In the same year, it was estimated that around 31 per cent of these phishing attacks targeted financial institutions, with just 25 distinct international banking organizations accounting for almost 60 per cent of banking phishing attacks. Over 22 per cent of all attacks were found to make use of fake banking websites (Kaspersky Lab, 2014).

to leave it to Eva to tell his daughter that David has gone, and will not be coming back. The anger will come, Eva knows – she is already dimly aware of it, but from a distance, as if viewed from the wrong end of a telescope. For now, there is only this deadening sense of calm.

I’ve been thinking about Plato’s cave, about that terrible idea that most of us spend our lives with our backs to the light, watching shadows on the wall. What if my life with David is just that? Suppose it’s simply not the real thing?

It has already divided the life of the orthodox man into three stages, or [ramas, studentship, the condition of the married householder, and thirdly the life of the hermit, or vnaprastha, to which the householder should retire after he has left a son to maintain his household;

She knows how to walk through the woods now. You need permission to be there, which is not obtained through asking. It is granted for purity of thought and stoutness of heart, for honesty and peace. You can never be part of the woods, never be of the woods, but you can be in the woods, for a brief moment in time, like a lover inside another.

It means that the history of a god is mainly moulded by two great factors, the growth of the people's spiritual experience and the character of its religious teachers.

In the beginning the gods were mortal.

Sometimes you have to take a step back to see things properly,

Take control of your life. Steer your own course. Shine your own light through the darkness.

I know I’ll be happy with Martin. He lets my light shine as brightly as his own.

there is no such thing as closure. There is only denial, and grief, and eventual grudging acceptance. And perhaps the odd, nagging feeling that if the miracle of life can be snatched away in a heartbeat, perhaps it can also be gifted back,

In the mid-1950s, Governor Luther Hodges cited Aycock’s “march of progress” in his defense of Jim Crow as a system that both ensured political tranquility and enabled racial uplift. His successor in the state house, Terry Sanford, noted that Aycock famously proclaimed “as a white man, I am afraid of but one thing for my race and that is we shall become afraid to give the Negro a fair chance. The white man in the South can never attain to his fullest growth until he does absolute justice to the Negro race.” This framing enabled Hodges, Sanford, and, later, Governor Dan Moore to define the “North Carolina way” in sharp contrast with the racially charged massive resistance rhetoric that defined the approaches of Alabama under George Wallace and Mississippi under Ross Barnett. This moderate course caused early observers like V. O. Key to view the state as “an inspiring exception to southern racism.” Crucially, it operated hand-in-hand with North Carolina’s anti-labor stance to advance the state’s economic interests. Hodges, Sanford, and Moore approached racial policy by emphasizing tranquility, and thus an intolerance for political contention. These officials placed a high value on law and order, condemning as “extremists” those who threatened North Carolina’s “harmonious” race relations by advocating either civil rights or staunch segregation. While racial distinctions could not be elided in the Jim Crow South, where the social fabric was shot through with racial disparity, an Aycock-style progressivist stance emphasized the maintenance of racial separation alongside white elites’ moral and civic interest in the well-being of black residents. This interest generally took the form of a pronounced paternalism, which typically enabled powerful white residents to serve as benefactors to their black neighbors, in a sort of patron-client relationship. “It was white people doing something for blacks—not with them,” explained Charlotte-based Reverend Colemon William Kerry Jr. While often framed as gestures of beneficence and closeness, such acts reproduced inequity and distance. More broadly, this racial order served dominant economic and political interests, as it preserved segregation with a progressive sheen that favored industrial expansion.12

Nothing really dies. Not really. Everything is linked. Connected. There is a… force that moves through all of us.

Cornish dialect word for ants.

There was something about the idea of the whole sea being one big, flowing mass, and so full of life. Life which, if you didn’t want to eat it, probably wanted to eat you.