Fixed Arithmetic Hebrew

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, arithmetic and/or hebrew:

“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power of persons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job 38:11.

God speaking to Job of his laying of his “foundations of the earth.”