Alcuin of York quote: "O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when we sat quietly . . . midst all these books."

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of G...
ALCUIN

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, ...
ALCUIN

Man thinks, God directs.
ALCUIN

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't m...
ALCUIN

I?m single. I?m skinny. I still can?t find a man.
DUCHESS OF YORK

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)

Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for ...
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the...
ST. ALCUIN

Beatrice loves her glamorous dresses and her hair being curly or big - like Mummy's - and I hate...
PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK

Learning is the gateway to adventure.
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK

When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the...
PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was...
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK

Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. ...
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their chil...
PETER YORK

When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?'...
PETER YORK

Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British ...
PETER YORK

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and ...
DICK YORK

In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list ...
PETER YORK

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for p...
PETER YORK

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. ...
PETER YORK

For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that ...
PETER YORK

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a ...
MICHAEL YORK

Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing...
PETER YORK

I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like...
PETER YORK

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion...
PETER YORK

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
SUSANNAH YORK

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
DICK YORK

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that ...
DICK YORK

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty ro...
DICK YORK

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of reje...
MICHAEL YORK

There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for...
DICK YORK

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather ...
MICHAEL YORK

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it ...
PETER YORK

Too much talking can hurt you.
CAROL YORK

It's a lot more important than most people think.
CAROL YORK

If people see a closet or garage jam packed and totally unorganized they are going to feel like they...
CAROL YORK

I tell people to drive up to their house like they've never seen it before. Look at the mailbox sinc...
CAROL YORK

In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have...
PETER YORK

Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand,...
PETER YORK

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
PETER YORK

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no c...
PETER YORK

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding ...
DICK YORK

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think f...
PETER YORK

We'd really have liked Vermont to have joined the league next year.
JERRY YORK

Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an epony...
PETER YORK

It was a terrific bus ride. You can have a million dollars, but you can't buy this feeling.
JERRY YORK

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
PETER YORK

Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
PETER YORK

The bottom line is, as a 70-year-old diabetic, I need a little (vehicle) access. But they?re not int...
JOHN YORK

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to ...
MICHAEL YORK

Our intent with this report is to provide policymakers and program managers a ready reference of pro...
DAN YORK

China has agreed to more stringent screening and testing of fish sold to Hong Kong,
YORK CHOW

They have not actually suspended all the imports (to Hong Kong) as I far as I know.
YORK CHOW

All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' one...
PETER YORK

When I write, I'm trying to put what I love into music. Everything through my life, the music that i...
ANDREW YORK

We know we're a pretty consistent shooting team, so the thing we knew we had to do to win this game ...
ANDREW YORK

These guys are amazing. We're just one big family. We've all grown up together, we've all had dreams...
ANDREW YORK

It was a shooting gallery.
JERRY YORK

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central st...
PETER YORK

I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spe...
KELLEY YORK

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
PETER YORK

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then t...
DICK YORK

If Armstrong had not made the call, it is not clear when, if ever, the vice president's office would...
BYRON YORK

Both teams were a little apprehensive. It was a bit of a checkers match at first.
JERRY YORK

These cases have no legal support, ... It's so frivolous that there's a good chance that the law fir...
YORK STATE

He is an urban resident, he had no contact with farms or any poultry from the villages. His only exp...
YORK CHOW

[The fishmongers] have the right [to suspend sales], but I hope they will think it over. Sentimental...
YORK CHOW

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards ...
PETER YORK

Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used ...
PETER YORK

Given the public health concerns, we are proceeding with full speed in drafting legislation to ban h...
YORK CHOW

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. ...
PETER YORK

There's so much supply it's become a chore for investors to say which is the best one to bet on. And...
LAWRENCE YORK

(Owners) feel that if we impose an anti-smoking ordinance within a very short time, they definitely ...
YORK CHOW

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage a...
DICK YORK

I've tried everything and I'm not sure what the problem is. I've even tried where I don't even use t...
CHRIS YORK

We knew that (working in New Orleans) was going to be rough and we were all ready to buck up and do ...
CHRIS YORK

You're never quite sure how they're going to react during the first part of the year.
JERRY YORK

No one has developed active tuberculosis.
MICHAEL YORK

And still eat. When we tour we take a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a lot of ham and ch...
CHRIS YORK

It's been described by the Coast Guard as Jell-O. As it gets colder, it'll want to stiffen up.
MARK YORK

Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rat...
PETER YORK

With all the measures we have taken and all measures we propose, most likely we have adequate measur...
YORK CHOW

We think that a 1 percent reduction is doable. Some states in New England have already been able to ...
DAN YORK

It shows me what kind of nerves he has. It shows the level of composure he has on the big stage, and...
JERRY YORK

People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and de...
PETER YORK

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth ap...
DICK YORK

We played what I think is a really solid, physical team in Lowell. They're bigger and stronger than ...
JERRY YORK

Rescue operation," he says, breathless. "Saved Barbie from drowning.
KELLEY YORK

They are very deserving national champions. I think (Wisconsin) is the best team we have played this...
JERRY YORK

There is some openings on it. We know some product has come out but not the extent that poses a grea...
MARK YORK

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the bloc...
DICK YORK

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
DICK YORK

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
DICK YORK

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-...
PETER YORK

This situation calls for the company's going into crisis mode, adopting a degree of urgency that rec...
JERRY YORK

I believe the shareholders will support reducing the dividend as part of an equality of sacrifice pl...
JERRY YORK

I do believe the time has come to go into crisis mode.
JERRY YORK

The hockey game was high-spirited. It was a very competitive game between two teams that I think wil...
JERRY YORK

Mentally, we were really focused. I didn't feel that we were tired.
JERRY YORK

He was a friendly guy and kind of kept to his own from what I could see.
JERRY YORK

I think Wisconsin is the best team we have played this year over 60 minutes. I thought that our club...
JERRY YORK

That's how close things are sometimes. That goes in and all of a sudden it's a fresh sheet of ice fo...
JERRY YORK

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his profes...
JERRY YORK

You've got to get people looking outside the company at customers and competitors,
JERRY YORK

Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it,...
PETER YORK

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically...
PETER YORK

Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill yo...
KELLEY YORK

Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it wi...
PETER YORK

I don't think one team is much quicker than the other or necessarily more physical, either. I think ...
JERRY YORK

My girlfriend claims that her last boyfriend was a better kisser than me and I have to admit, he is ...
DWIGHT YORK

Obviously, our investigation has already begun to determine the cause of the accident.
MARK YORK

In broad general terms, yes, we'd be interested in mine safety improvements at the federal level. We...
MARK YORK

We're in the process of reviewing the bill.
MARK YORK

He apparently was standing beside his car when he was struck by another car.
MARK YORK

It's clear the Internet will be a powerful new channel for distribution and information. We're seein...
LAWRENCE YORK

If you look at this as a long-term investment, the sell-off that has occurred in the market is very ...
LAWRENCE YORK

Considering that the majority of the staff are freshmen and earn awards as freshmen it's a good indi...
LAURA YORK

Faculty senate will host a luncheon to recognize the winner. The winner also receives an all expense...
LAURA YORK

It's a difficult call because among our 60 full-time faculty we have many outstanding faculty member...
LAURA YORK

It's an acknowledgment of a job well-done.
LAURA YORK

These girls -- and we said this in the locker room -- they made our senior year. I didn't think it'd...
KYLIE YORK

This is the best year, by far, of my basketball career. I can't ask for anything better, coming in w...
KYLIE YORK

At least we know what we're getting ourselves into. We're not coming in cold and don't know who we n...
KYLIE YORK

It makes it a lot easier than when people are bumping heads. You don't have that here. You have one ...
KYLIE YORK

One thing we talked about is that we wanted to come back and practice. We enjoy playing with these g...
KYLIE YORK

If we don?t make a difference in kindergarten through first grade, it?s much more difficult to overc...
JULIE YORK

This year I've been figuring out who I am. I've been learning what I want, and it's the same as what...
ROBIN YORK

But I don't know if I have played in a place where a team had a reason to dislike me,
NEW YORK GIANTS

Some of it is belief, ... A lot of guys who have gone through Pittsburgh believe in that system more...
NEW YORK GIANTS

We're very close to concluding a deal
NEW YORK GIANTS

I felt fine, ... I wanted to take all of the snaps, but [coach Tom Coughlin] took me out and I don't...
NEW YORK GIANTS

You never know what you're going to get from week to week in the NFL,
NEW YORK GIANTS

Too Tom Coughlin-like right now,
NEW YORK GIANTS

At a point in history when we need the nation to trust us, we've given them reasons to step back and...
NEW YORK GIANTS

Speed and quickness are always going to be [critical], ... But sometimes bigger guys can power their...
NEW YORK GIANTS

Rosie was a great Giant, ... He was with this organization for more than 50 years as a player, coach...
NEW YORK GIANTS

Knowing that you don't know is the most essential step to knowing
SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK

There is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod,...
LIZZIE YORK CASE

You can go out there and get your neck broken and be paralyzed, ... It's a dangerous job we do.
NEW YORK GIANTS

[But what's not clear is whether all these players posturing for money is good for the image of the ...
NEW YORK GIANTS

I felt fine, ... I wanted to take all of the snaps, but (coach Tom Coughlin) took me out and I don't...
NEW YORK GIANTS

(Rice's) conditioning really has been a measuring stick for everybody in this league, ... It is so e...
NEW YORK GIANTS

Certainly we've had our ups and downs over the years, and we don't always agree, but I like Drew bec...
NEW YORK GIANTS

I'm sure he feels much more comfortable now,
NEW YORK GIANTS

[Washington's brass is hopeful.] Kwame has shown some real promise that's not based on numbers, ... ...
NEW YORK KNICKS

The Ghost

Like angels fierce and tawny-eyed,
Back to your chamber I will glide, ROY CAMPBELL, POEMS OF BAUDELAIRE (NEW YORK: PANTHEON BOOKS, 1952)

A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA

Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom....
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myse...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC

In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC

Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA

We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
TERESA OF AVILA

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind...
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when we sat quietly . . . midst all these books.

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