Bishop Les Mis Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul. — Victor Hugo

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that. — Mattie Stepanek

Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But the actual fact of inattention breeds fear; fear arises when there is an avoidance of the fact, a flight; then the very escape itself is fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it. — Lenny Kravitz

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle. — Nicolaus Copernicus

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at! — Gabrielle Aplin

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. — Umberto Eco

I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that. — Nick Love

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. — Nellie Bly

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend. — Gus Van Sant