The Temptation of Jesus, Gospel of Luke

The Temptation of Jesus.

When the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him for a time.

+ Gospel of Luke 4,13

http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/4

Cognitive re-calibration, Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (2012)

Natasha Romanoff: [Clint is waking up from Loki's mind control] Clint, you're gonna be alright.
Clint Barton: You know that? Is that what you know? I got... I gotta go in though. I gotta flush him out.
Natasha Romanoff: You gotta level out, that's gonna take time.
Clint Barton: You don't understand. Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Take you out and stuff something else in? You know what it's like to be unmade?
Natasha Romanoff: You know that I do.
Clint Barton: Why am I back? How'd you get him out?
Natasha Romanoff: Cognitive re-calibration. I hit you really hard in the head.
Clint Barton: Thanks.

- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (2012)

Nature, Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb

Women, Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

여성은 신의 두번째 실수입니다.

- 니체

Winter, Willa Cather

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

- Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Work, Albanian Proverb

Kur s'ke punë luaj derën.
Translation: When you have nothing to do, rattle the door.

- Albanian proverb

Meaning: If you are bored, start doing some work.

Kostallari, Gjuhësisëdhe i Letërsisë(Akademia e Shkencave e RPS tëShqipërisë) (1981). Fjalor i gjuhës sësotme shqipe. Rilindja. p. 1570.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albanian_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not hate any of your kindred in your heart. Reprove your neighbor openly so that you do not incur sin because of that person. Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,17-18

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Celebrity, Phoebe Cates

Young people are more sophisticated today, thanks to magazines and movies and even porno cable television. As a New Yorker I think I`ve matured faster than other young people. I`m street smart.

- Phoebe Cates (1963- )

Time, Zhu Xi (朱憙, 1130-1200)

少年易老学难成，一寸光阴不可轻。

- 朱憙

The young become old soon. It takes a lot of time to learn something. We must not waste any time.

- Zhu Xi (朱憙, 1130-1200)

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Similar Sayings

¶ Time is money.(Western Proverb)

¶ You may delay, but time will not. (Benjamin Franklin)

Life, Will Rogers

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Winter, William Bradford

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

- William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor, 1590-1657)

Fortune, Ndebele Proverb

Amajodo awela abangelambiza.
Translation: Fortune favours the foolish.

- Ndebele proverb

As quoted in Rev. J.N. Pelling, A Practial Ndebele Dictionary, Longman Zimbabwe, Harare (1994), p. 150.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ndebele_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your neighbor justly.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,15

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Joke, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Stryver: Do those heels make it hard to walk?
[Catwoman kicks Stryver from behind]
Catwoman: I don't know, do they?

- Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle / Catwoman, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Happiness, Chinese Proverb

If you want happiness for an hour? take a nap. If you want happiness for a day? Go fishing. If you want happiness for a year? Inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime? Help someone else.

- Chinese Proverb

Time, Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Vision, Paul Harvey

A blind man’s world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man’s world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man’s world by the limits of his vision.

- Paul Harvey (1918-2009)

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The fate of me, my family, my community and country is determined by what I am studying, who I am meeting and what my dreams and ambitions are.

Winter, Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Time, Western Proverb

Time is money.

- Western Proverb

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer. You shall not insult the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the blind.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,13-14

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Investment, Wall Street

The best possible time to invest is when the sky is black with clouds.

- Wall Street

After extreme weakness buy stocks.

Hero, Catwoman from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

[a couple thugs go to attack Lucius while he's handcuffed. Catwoman intervenes and beats them down]
Lucius Fox: [to Batman] I like your new girlfriend!
Catwoman: [she undoes his cuffs] He should be so lucky.

- Lucius Fox and Selina Kyle / Catwoman, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Canton, Chinese proverb

Everything new originates in Canton(廣東).

- Chinese proverb

Love, Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Winter, Percy Bysshe Shelley

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

겨울이 오면 봄도 멀지 않으리.

- 퍼시 셸리

Tomorrow, African Proverb

Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

- West African proverb

Prospectus, Goldman (2011). Baseball Prospectus 2011. John Wiley and Sons. p. 496. ISBN 0470622067.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/African_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not steal. You shall not deceive or speak falsely to one another.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,11

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Hero, Catwoman and Batman from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Catwoman: You don't owe these people anymore! You've given them everything!
Batman: Not everything. Not yet.

- Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle / Catwoman and Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Love, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

Winter, Charles Kingsley

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

Sun, African Proverb

The sun is the king of torches.

- West African proverb

West African proverb, quoted in Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages : Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically (1887) by Robert Christy, p. 322

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/African_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

Japan, Hua Chunying (華春瑩)

Abe's visit to the shrine has already attracted the Chinese people's ire and denunciation. How can a person who is not willing to face up to their own history, to facts, win the trust of the international community or cause people to believe he has a role to play in maintaining regional and global peace and stability?

- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying (Dec 27, 2013)

Vocation, Book of Isaiah

Yet just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,

So shall my word be
that goes forth from my mouth;
It shall not return to me empty,
but shall do what pleases me,
achieving the end for which I sent it.

+ The Book of Isaiah 55,10-11

http://www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/55

Japan, Catherine Ashton

Abe's visit to the shrine was not conducive to lowering tensions in the region or to improving relations with Japan's neighbors.

- EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (Dec 27, 2013)

Courage, Chinese Proverb

Only the brave deserve the fair.

- Chinese Proverb

However, only the rich, fat and cowardly merchants can afford the same.