Gilbertus Quotes & Sayings

I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be. — Erma Bombeck

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die
that is what we march for! — Steven Pressfield

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution? — Colin Mochrie

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. — Gary Shteyngart

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine. — A.E. Van Vogt

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I was young: "All of these things with which we occupy ourselves don't amount to much in the cosmic scale of things, do they? No matter how extensively we ponder any particular topic, there is really very little there"
Gilbertus Albans, Reflections in the Mirror of the Mind — Brian Herbert

You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets. — Bob Diamond

Environment where students could develop their mental skills through hours of uninterrupted meditation. Gilbertus had chosen this inhospitable area with a specific purpose in mind. He believed the danger and isolation would help focus the — Brian Herbert

He was too busy being ghostly to attend to her, however. — Maggie Stiefvater

The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while. — Mona Awad

The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. — Hannah Arendt

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease. — George Orwell

Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy. — Bhakti Charu Swami

Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said that if the United States continued to kill life at its beginnings with abortion, at its mid-day with the handicapped, and at twilight with euthanasia, it would lead to the catastrophic midnight of nuclear war. — Kelly Bowring

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. — William Shakespeare