Commande Quotes & Sayings

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. — Horace

It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace. — Pope Francis

We are an institution of high learning and higher manners. We simply cannot shoot first; it isn't done. Now, remember that, Miss Temminnick, do - a lady never shoots first. She asks questions, then she shoots. — Gail Carriger

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. — J.K. Rowling

Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. — Leonard Cohen

The idea's an instant mood-lifter. I'm going to take up more space in a room than my father. — Jandy Nelson

Dominic, without saying a word, begged for everything physical and everything tender, the sins of the flesh tattooed on him though he had never known such things; or perhaps because he had not. — Vee Hoffman

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become. — David A. Bednar

There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back. — Ryan Reynolds

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand. — Mickey Mantle