Blessed John Of Fiesole Quotes & Sayings

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly."
"I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."
"Apparently I am. — Kristin Cashore

Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life. — Gloria Furman

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead. — Amanda Seyfried

I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business. — Lily Cole

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. — Noam Chomsky

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin

Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life. — Khaled Hosseini

And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all the more so because they preferred to appear, in marrying their son to her, to have yielded to the attraction rather of her natural charm than of her considerable fortune. — Marcel Proust

makes his sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain to the righteous and to the unrighteous — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning. — Jasper Fforde

The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters. — Matthew Arnold

So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power ... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship. — Terence McKenna