Brideshead Revisited Aloysius Quotes & Sayings

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead. — Julia Morgan

It's amazing how many times in life I've said, "I want to do that someday", not thinking that someday might never come. I will never take someday for granted again. — Lisa De Jong

I thought we'd already determined that you haven't the right to order me about. That can only be purchased with a special license from the archbishop."

He shook his head before saying softly, "I'm afraid I can no longer afford to purchase such a license. Not when it could cost the both of us so dearly. — Teresa Medeiros

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. — Irving Babbitt

I try not to tweet too much; I'm a really sporadic tweeter. I will tweet nonstop for, like, 3 days, and then I won't for a month. I don't make it priority at all; if I feel like doing it, I do it, and if not, then I don't care. — Elizabeth Gillies

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists. — Colin Munroe

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. — Jacques Maritain

Rise to the occasion of your one and only heart. — Cheryl Strayed

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word. — E.B. White

Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection. — Kate Zambreno

For Werner, doubts turn up regularly. Racial purity, political purity - Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye - the body can never be pure. But this is what the commandant insists upon, why the Reich measures their noses, clocks their hair color. The entropy of a closed system never decreases. — Anthony Doerr

I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do. — David Robert Mitchell

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens. — Elon Musk

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other. — Laurence Sterne