„The game is afoot.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish physician and author 1859 - 1930
Source: Adventure of the Abbey Grange
„I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!“
Source: Henry V
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English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616Related quotes
„Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
„First they give you everything that you want
Then they take back everything that you have
They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees
They can work with satan while they dress like the saints
They know god exists for the devil told them so
They scream my name aloud down into the well below“
— David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016
The Next Day (2013)
Song lyrics, The Next Day (2013)
„In succeeding to the throne of Mysore, I follow a great ruler who loved you all, and who won your love by his love of God, by his wisdom, his graciousness, his humility, his faithfulness to his duty and his Kingly greatness; …called upon people to ‘consecrate themselves in the spirit of unity and self sacrifice.“
— Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar Indian writer 1919 - 1974
On the occasion of his coronation, In Jaya Chamaraja Wodeyar http://www.mysoresamachar.com/j_wadiyar_ann1.htm
„Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
„I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful.
Upon that rock I stand.“
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
What Must We Do To Be Saved? (1880) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38801/38801-h/38801-h.htm Section XI, "What Do You Propose?"
Context: I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful.
Upon that rock I stand.
That he will not torture the forgiving.
Upon that rock I stand.
That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star, in which honesty is a crime.
Upon that rock I stand.
The honest man, the good woman, the happy child, have nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come.
Upon that rock I stand.
„Let’s play a little game I like to call Cole’s in Charge and Ali’s Not.“
— Gena Showalter American writer 1975
Source: The Queen of Zombie Hearts
„I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.“
John Proctor
The Crucible (1953)
„Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.“
— Samuel Rutherford Scottish Reformed theologian 1600 - 1661
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.
„I see the clouds part slowly, and I hear a cry of protest against the bigot. The restraining hand of tolerance is laid upon the inquisitor, and the humanist utters a message of peace to the persecuted. Instead of the cry, "Burn the heretic!"“
— Helen Keller, book Optimism
men study the human soul with sympathy, and there enters into their hearts a new reverence for that which is unseen.
Optimism (1903)
„God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled…“
— Leonard Cohen, book Beautiful Losers
Beautiful Losers (1966)
„And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.“
— Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012
„I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.“
— Genghis Khan founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire 1162 - 1227
As quoted in Ta'Rikh-i-Jahan Gusha [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
Context: O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
„When I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of God so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood.“
— Oliver Cromwell English military and political leader 1599 - 1658
On his forcible dissolution of parliament (April 1653) quoted in Flagellum: or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Oliver Cromwell the Late Usurper (1663) by James Heath
„And I cry – I who am a son of the land of Poland and who am also Pope John Paul II – I cry from all the depths of this Millennium, I cry on the vigil of Pentecost: Let your Spirit descend! Let your Spirit descend! And renew the face of the earth. The face of this land!“
— Pope John Paul II 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint 1920 - 2005
I wołam, ja, syn polskiej ziemi, a zarazem ja: Jan Paweł II papież, wołam z całej głębi tego tysiąclecia, wołam w przeddzień święta Zesłania, wołam wraz z wami wszystkimi: Niech zstąpi Duch Twój! Niech zstąpi Duch Twój! I odnowi oblicze ziemi. Tej ziemi!
the Polish word ziemi means both "earth" and "land"; on the former utterance, it refers to the entire planet, on the latter – to Poland.
Homily during the Holy Mass in Victory Square in Warsaw on 2 June 1979, during the pope's first apostolic journey to Poland
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19790602_polonia-varsavia_en.html
„The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. The spirit of God, i. e., his invisible power, moved upon the waters and thereby he created.“
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford American judge 1869 - 1942
The Harp of God (1921)
„.. nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.“
— Sylvia Day American writer 1973
Source: Reflected in You
„To be in politics is to be misjudged. But the moment I flourish the axe, murder the hog, look at the brains of the hog sloshing around in the bucket, I anoint my face with the blood, the offal, and I give out a mighty cry to the Gods upon Olympus.“
— Steve Hilton British political consultant 1969
Said after Hilton threatens to 'murder the hog', as quoted in "Hilton threatens to 'murder the hog'" http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1962285,00.html, The Guardian, October 22, 2011
„Would to God, brethren, I could tell you who I am! Would to God I could tell you what I know! But you would call it blasphemy, and there are men upon this stand who would want to take my life.“
— Joseph Smith, Jr. American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement 1805 - 1844
Quoted by Orson F. Whtiney, Life of Heber C. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Kimball Family, 1888), 322