Abbesses Quotes & Sayings

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. — Simon Dach

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high ... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time. — Stephen King

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy. — Warren Buffett

Abbesses then for several centuries were recognized as the ordinary ministers of penance for their own monastic community and sometimes even exercised that power outside that circle. This was one of the most important liturgical functions — Gary Macy

Everything is at its best when it's doing exactly what it was created for. A lamp gives light. An apple gives sustenance and refreshment. A chair is perfect in being exactly what it is
a chair. — Wendy Mass

I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family, — Gillian Flynn

Honor," she said. "The point is honor. — George R R Martin

Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses! — Michael R. Burch

As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole. — Mona Charen

I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting. — R.L. LaFevers

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. Which will be soon, and then the dark, and then be done with this ugliness ... — William Styron

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying. — George Orwell

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel. — Howard Hughes

I fear books; for I have heard it said, and I think it true, that a man who
spends long enough in their company grows at last unmindful of the world outside their covers, and lives finally in a twilight world of fantastic things and places as insubstantial as dreams. — Chris Naylor

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives.
- Clara Bayliss — John Hennessy

Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress( ... The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI) ... The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas! — Smedley Butler

When I have extra time I just go out to the Hamptons. I have a house in Southampton I go out to as much as I possibly can. — Hilary Rhoda