Eclesiastico 2 Quotes & Sayings

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can? — Rebecca West

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station. — Michael Winner

No matter what they say, we aren't free if we can't make our own choices. — Grace Fiorre

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence. — Brother Lawrence

The Stoics fell somewhere between the Cyrenaics and the Cynics: They thought people should enjoy the good things life has to offer, including friendship and wealth, but only if they did not cling to these good things. Indeed, they thought we should periodically interrupt our enjoyment of what life has to offer to spend time contemplating the loss of whatever it is we are enjoying. Affiliating — William B. Irvine

There's three kinds of lies in this world:
There's lies ...
There's damned lies ...
And there's statistics — Benjamin Disraeli

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? — Lewis Mumford

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling. — Seth Klarman

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? — William Dean Howells

Amazingly, we've become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe. — Joel Salatin

Life is a mirror. — J. Mason Williams

Our self-acknowledgement, our dedication has to be bigger than our fear. — Rod Stryker

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society — Irving Howe

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie. — Justin Simien