Consuetudine Quotes & Sayings

And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world — Henry James

But, for a little while, this is the place for us
a good place too
a place of good omen, a place of beginning things
and of ending things I never thought would end. — Beryl Markham

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize. — Deena Metzger

In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook. — Kate Atkinson

May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause. — Regina Spektor

Oh, well, you go to poor school." He gives a comic eye roll. "At rich school, we take notes on hundred-dollar bills using unicorn tears, and our grief is vastly different and more complex. — Delilah S. Dawson

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents. — Mary Renault

Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, 'he need not be followed' ... — Pope Innocent I

Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] — Thomas A Kempis

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. — Dean Inge

The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. — Adolf Hitler

Your idea of me is fabricated with materials you have borrowed from other people and from yourself. What you think of me depends on what you think of yourself. Perhaps you create your idea of me out of material that you would like to eliminate from your own idea of yourself. Perhaps your idea of me is a reflection of what other people think of you. Or perhaps what you think of me is simply what you think I think of you. — Thomas Merton

I have moved on. I have moved forward. — Amber Frey

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. — Barry Mann

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. — Ruta Sepetys

Never is an awfully long time. — J.M. Barrie