Quotes about bel (9 Quotes)



    Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only it is moral also a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to bel.

    BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his glory on the Plain of Shinar. From Babel comes our English word babble. Under whatever name worshiped, Baal is the Sun-god. As Beelzebub he is the god of flies, which are begotten of the sun's rays on the stagnant water. In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom.


    a theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.



    In my old age I have come to believe that the whole of written history is miscreated and flawed by these discrepancies in the two ideals systems the one of how we would all like to believe humanity might be, but only the privileged can afford to bel

    When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. I went to the best schools, and got the best girls. My intelligence quotient was well above average and yet I could be a rebellious, troublesome punk who brought more than a little anxiety to my parents.

    The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.



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