Fr Samuel Mazzuchelli Quotes & Sayings

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. — Barbara Demick

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom
which is bordered on all sides by isolation
is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet. — Saul Bellow

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train ... — Tom Waits

I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long. — Colin Firth

Another problem with people who fail to examine themselves is that they often prove all too easily influenced. — Martha C. Nussbaum

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism. — Aleksandar Hemon

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. — Bo Bennett

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. — Frederick Lenz

I did not see the white people, only the black: and as I watched I swore I could see fumes rising from their mouths - fumes rolling out of their mouths like exhaust, and I could see that every black person had the same small cloud of angry smoke coming out of his or her mouth and nose, a haze rolling up off the street like exhaust, filling the air, the white people breathing all that and not knowing it. Someone — Ben H. Winters

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book. — Alan Lightman

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats. — Bella Abzug