Dialogo Pastoral Quotes & Sayings

Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one. — Galileo Galilei

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle. — Tawni O'Dell

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — Erica Jong

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done. — Barry Eisler

I'll murder a basketful of kittens in a playground full of kindergarteners if it will send me to hell to be by your side. — Amber Kell

It is striking that even some who clearly have solid doctrinal and spiritual convictions frequently fall into a lifestyle which leads to an attachment to financial security, or to a desire for power or human glory at all cost, rather than giving their lives to others in mission. — Pope Francis

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. — Angela Carter

I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation. — Christy Hall

Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird. — Colleen Gleason