Affixed Signature Quotes & Sayings

The brain, as busy as it can be, is actually very lazy...It sees what it expects to see — James R. Doty

The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love. — Benedict Groeschel

Sometimes I amaze even myself. — Erich Segal

...listen to everyone but believe no one, not even me. We all have our own agendas and we will do whatever we can to accomplish them. — Katie Hamstead

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. — Ivan Doig

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. — John Hewson

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. — Marilynne Robinson

It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi ... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that. — Laura Bush

If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility of such an a priori knowledge. — Immanuel Kant

By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia. — John Bagot Glubb

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift. — Joel Osteen

Great faith must have great trials. — Charles Spurgeon