Divergent Series Funny Quotes & Sayings

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay. — Kathleen Norris

I think a lot of TV insults the audience. — Bernie Mac

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much. — Holly Holm

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right? — Bob Dylan

I headbang with my head, no my hair — Hayley Williams

I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal. — Jodie Foster

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger. — Confucius

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind. — Seung Sahn

It's like they never miss. — Josephine Angelini

Leaves around the door are penciled losses. — John Ashbery

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again. — Pierce Brosnan

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. — Jill Lepore

We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. — Spencer W. Kimball

I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of those people who didn't go to church, but when I got in trouble I kinda pleaded with God - whoever that was. — Bill Maher