Cappuccini Monastery Quotes & Sayings

Kissing a woman's hand is never the right thing to do; it is either too much or too little. — Melchior Lengyel

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

Huxley's Brave New World is set in an indefinitely distant future: it will not be possible for many years to say that Huxley's apprehensions have not proved justified. It is unlikely that populations will undergo genetic and environmental manipulation in the exact way that Huxley foresaw: there will never be a fixed number of predetermined strata, from Alpha Plus to Epsilon Minus Semi-Morons. But as an Italian scientist prepares to clone humans, and as reproduction grows as divorced from sex as sex is from reproduction, it is increasingly hard to regard Huxley's vision as entirely far-fetched. — Theodore Dalrymple

The older I get, the less I care about what's cool. I realize I'm old and weird. — Aesop Rock

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent

Men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men. — Christina Escamilla

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty. — Blake Shelton

And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged ... — Andrzej Szczypiorski

I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert. — Bryce Courtenay

You are my cat, and I am your human. — Hilaire Belloc

I've seen miracles happen with sound ... — Tom Kenyon

I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note. — Lenny Abrahamson