Galgano Sword Quotes & Sayings

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church. — Saint Augustine

Pity is just another form of abuse. — Michael J. Fox

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it. — Winston Churchill

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system. — Michael Grimm

Suddenly, gentlemen of the jury, I felt a Dostoevskian grin dawning (through the very grimace that twisted my lips) like a distant and terrible sun. — Vladimir Nabokov

There is no exquisite beauty ... without some strangeness in the proportion. — Edgar Allan Poe

But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life. — Saint Augustine

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry. — Julian Barnes

I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity. — Josephine Baker

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. — Maimonides

I do all my own stunts! — Jennifer Garner