Arcebispo De Braga Quotes & Sayings

The supposed "secular" values atheists hold dear are in fact borrowed Christian values. Our society is respectful of any creed, or lack thereof, not because it embraces an illusory, non-existent secular morality, but because it is rooted in Christian faith. Christopher Dawson noted that "we cannot understand the inner form of a society unless we understand its religion." Because moral values are always a religious product, and Western moral values are a product of Christianity. Our values, what we believe has a value beyond and above our self-interest, are grounded in religious faith or are not grounded at all. — Giorgio Roversi

His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When the best we can do is to call ourselves the least worst, it should be taken as a sign that we are much worse than we might realize. — Mattathias Schwartz

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do. — Mark Pellegrino

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. — Cecelia Ahern

I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always. — Jay Baruchel

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden. — Aristotle.

My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor. — Anne Lamott

My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way. — Robbie Coltraine

How every fool can play upon the word! — William Shakespeare

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is. — Paul Krugman

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. — Amy Tan

The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves. — S.M. Oberhansley

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett