Dominicans Order Quotes & Sayings

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. — Paul Samuelson

The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering. — Virginia Woolf

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. — Harrison Scott Key

It's because those events never really become wounds or scars on the surface, but parts of you deep down inside," he said, answering his own question. "You can't see them with the naked eye, but they nevertheless shape the way you move and everything you say and do - until the day you die. — Erik Valeur

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it. — Jackie Evancho

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. — Edward Abbey

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home. — Daisy Ridley

I like presents that a man has spent time on, doing them himself, like a card or anything that is made by hand and from the heart. — Adriana Lima

Another significant factor that increased pressure on the Jews was the rise of the mendicant orders of preaching friars, the Dominicans and the Franciscans. The Dominicans in particular were to become leaders in the campaign against the Jews. Saint Dominic probably never imagined that his order would initiate the Spanish Inquisition and oversee the public immolation of heretics. The only torment he advocated was self-directed. — Jeffrey Gorsky

Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care. — Nora Roberts

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. — Blaise Pascal