...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very difficult to root out. When summarized in a few neat words or phrases, these gems of wisdom become substitutes for thought, and gradually take on much of the status of revealed truth. Occasionally, some iconoclast sees fit to challenge one of them, and a brief flurry ensues, after which things go on about as before. It is easy to think of plenty of ideas that are passing, if they have not already passed, beyond the stage of effective discussion.
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Related I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name... STUART NADLER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. AMIT RAY That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The scars of others should teach us caution. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be... SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go... SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,... SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati... SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ... SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar... SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ... SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w... SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra... SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe... SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n... SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost. SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju... SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je... SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ... SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure... SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ... SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in... SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ... SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness. SAINT BERNARD
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[Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] PHILLIPE V. DESTOUCHES I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. EUGENE V. DEBS Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for... V. S. NAIPAUL Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of... ANDREW V. MASON While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. ... EUGENE V. DEBS Behind every successful man, there is a woman; and behind her there is envy... ANKALA V SUBBARAO CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the ... MARK V. HURD At school I had only admirers; I had no friends. V. S. NAIPAUL My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot,... PETER V. BRETT I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. EUGENE V. DEBS I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth throug... KING GEORGE V Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and ... V. E. SCHWAB A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of wa... HERBERT V. PROCHNOW There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale,... PETER V. BRETT Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for ... EUGENE V. DEBS Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, ... MARIA V. SNYDER Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repeti... HARVEY V. FINEBERG The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molec... C. V. RAMAN When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by ocean... C. V. RAMAN It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of... C. V. RAMAN An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer ... V. S. NAIPAUL When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many differ... HARVEY V. FINEBERG In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind... V. S. NAIPAUL Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances an... MARK V. HURD I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions tha... V. E. SCHWAB Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. KING GEORGE V The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And... JOHN V. CHENEY I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. EUGENE V. DEBS Nature is the best Time-keeper. ANKALA V SUBBARAO {Debbs' letter to EUGENE V. DEBS We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-" "He isn'... MARIA V. SNYDER Perhaps I am broken , he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have... PETER V. BRETT Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly wit... EDWARD V. LONG Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of ev... V. S. NAIPAUL I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. V. S. NAIPAUL To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you ha... V. S. NAIPAUL I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact ... MARK V. HURD When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. H. V. PROCHNOW We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. H. V. ADOLT When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are
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