Cantons Quotes & Sayings

Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily. — Chris Matakas

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. — Thomas Browne

love is enthusiasm rather than pensiveness — Pope John Paul II

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses. — Richard King

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive. — Larry Wilcox

I used to pray that God would surround them with people who were good influences. When my eyes began to open, I realized my prayers better adjust to greater reality. The truth is, godly influences are few. I pray for them to know what to do with bad influences and hope they become the good influences! — Beth Moore

There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything. — Barbara Kingsolver

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly. — Matthew Rhys

Switzerland is undeniably a modern country, but gender roles make occasional appearances. In some cantons women didn't get the right to vote until the 1970s. Anna knew she'd been in Switzerland too long when this stopped appalling her. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Every year, thousands of startups are founded - not only in technology, but increasingly also in health care, education, and energy. — Mike Krieger

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night. — William Shakespeare

The working concept of God for most ordinary Christians is - if one may venture a bold guess- shaped more by the combination of Greek philosophy and Islamic
theology that was powerfully injected into the thought of Christendom at the beginning of the High Middle Ages than by the thought of the fathers of the first four centuries. — Lesslie Newbigin

You're beautiful. Every inch of you is so beautiful. — Colleen Hoover

When they are among us cats are angels — George Sand

I don't love just men. I love people. It's not about a gender. It's just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you're with. — Kesha

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson

A man's life will not come again, once it has slipped through his teeth. And no power on earth can bring it back. This is the mortal law. Then no longer will his bones be held together by wet sinews. Then no longer the soul flutter in his mouth. But by Death's blazing light, he is ground out and spent. — Paul Pope

In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the poor, he said: Look at the people of Briancon! They have conferred on the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single murderer among them. — Victor Hugo

The only thing you can be sure of, Herr March, is that - whoever wins - still standing when the smoke of battle clears will be the banks of the cantons of Switzerland. — Robert Harris