“Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
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“Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
“It's YMCMB the fuckin alpha and omega”
Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman
So Dedicated
Official Mix tapes, Dedication 4 (2012)
“Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Manchester (21 April 1908), quoted in Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 35.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Wallace Stevens book The Auroras of Autumn
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)
James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest
The Epilogue : Which is the proper ending of all comedies; and heralds, it may be, an afterpiece.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are...
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
During a tour of the United States, as quoted in The New York Times (5 June 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DD1F30F936A35755C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all <br class="br">1990s
Robert South (1634–1716) English theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 167.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"