God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God.
BERNARD LONERGANWho dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
MARK TWAIN -
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS -
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.
SIMON SINEK -
People complain that our generation has no philosophers.
ADOLF VON HARNACK -
It is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability
SHINZO ABE -
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
GARY OLDMAN -
Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
PATRICK HENRY -
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN -
Death is nature’s way of killing you.
BILL MAHER -
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
MATSUO BASHO -
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD -
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives.
ADAM SILVER -
Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
HAFEZ -
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
PAUL SIMON -
I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTIN -
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
IMMANUEL KANT -
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
JOHN BURROUGHS -
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.
MARILYN MONROE -
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
TORI AMOS -
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
I am very proud to be Italian.
MADONNA CICCONE -
Focus on loving and accepting others more than your own need to be loved and accepted by others.
ALYCE TAYLOR -
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.
CONOR MCGREGOR