Famous quotes containing the words called, intolerable and/or acts:
“Thank Heaven! the crisis —
The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness,
Is over at last M,
And the fever called “Living”
Is conquered at last.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“I am the LORD, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 6:6,7.