Capuchins Monks Quotes & Sayings

The writer seems constrained, not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who has him in thrall, to provide a plot, to provide comedy, tragedy, love interest, and an air of probability embalming the whole so impeccable that if all his figures were to come to life would find themselves dressed down to the last button of their coats in the fashion of the hour. The tyrant is obeyed; the novel is done to a turn. But sometimes, more and more often as time goes by, we suspect a momentary doubt, a spasm of rebellion, as pages fill themselves in the customary way. Is life like this? Must novels be like this? — Virginia Woolf

In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed. — Malcolm Godwin

I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. — Veronica Roth

We simply must do better. — David Price

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction. — Oliver

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. — William Law

It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution. — Ronnie Musgrove

There is a common superstition that "self-respect" is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation. — Joan Didion

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well. — Sol Luckman

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. — Douglas Adams