Audeo Charter Quotes & Sayings

He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something. — Neil Gaiman

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you. — Leon Botstein

Since mentally healthy human beings must grow, and since giving up or loss of the old self is an integral part of the process of mental and spiritual growth, depression is a normal and basically healthy phenomenon. It becomes abnormal or unhealthy only when something interferes with the giving-up process, with the result that the depression is prolonged and cannot be resolved by completion of the — M. Scott Peck

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward. — Tyler Perry

Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared. — Neal Ascherson

(air kisses, baby/air kisses/follow my breath) — Maggie Stiefvater

Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen? — Neil Gaiman

St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form.... — Titus Burckhardt

Nothing is my last word on anything. — Henry James

I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise. — Agathe Snow

After that, the men in the room rushed for the exits, apparently to sell their shares in Bear Stearns. By the time Alan Greenspan arrived to speak, there was hardly anyone who cared to hear what he had to say. The audience was gone. By Monday, Bear Stearns was of course gone, too, sold to J.P. Morgan for $2 a share.* — Michael Lewis

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. — Philip Yancey

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. — Jack Nicholson

If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights — Aleida Guevara

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects ... Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land. — William Vickrey