Fedele Miranda Quotes & Sayings

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol. — Catherine The Great

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. — Cedric Hardwicke

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules — Meg Cabot

Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity. — Pope John Paul II

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises. — Jack Kornfield

She's just tried to bloody knife me, Robin!"
"Well, she didn't manage it, did she?" commented Robin, busy with the kettle.
"Ineptitude," said Strike incredulously, "is no fucking defense under the law! — Robert Galbraith

If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives. — Saint Ignatius

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. — Andy Rooney

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five. — Grace Paley

We are all the same in that we all want to be different. — Jessica Zafra

The White House is a strange place. — Marlin Fitzwater

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Invest in stupidity, its stocks never go down. — William C. Brown

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life. — Aaron Lauritsen