Clares Quotes & Sayings

Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors. — John Henry Newman

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market. — Warren Buffett

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt. — Maggie Stiefvater

I wish I was older. And that I knew more than I do. — Scott Frost

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. — Alexander Berkman

When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher. — Rory Sutherland

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual. — John Berger

My wife attends a Presbyterian church. — Pat Robertson

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick. — Heather Morris

I researched sexual intimacy the same way I research everything else. Methodically and in intricate detail. — Nalini Singh

Out of great Russia came three
dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
for: Bread, Peace, Land. — Carl Sandburg

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl. — Stevie Wonder

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, — Charles Dickens

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate — Doris Lessing

These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where "writing infects the landscape" and there are "more letters than leaves" - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines. — Jorie Graham

She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of hate. — Caroline B. Cooney

Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith. — Hannah Whitall Smith