Hospitaller Knights Quotes & Sayings

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action ... unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer ... — Leo Buscaglia

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. — Thomas Carlyle

That's a lot of Bens to hold in your head at once. I should give them different names to keep them straight: Ben, Has-Ben, and What-Might-Have-
Ben. — Rick Yancey

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide. — John Updike

It's the right idea, but not the right time. — John Dalton

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. — Mary Wesley

I push a clump of very wet hair out of my face and try to look dignified. It's not like it really matters in the long run, considering I'm in the presence of a boy who is wearing a T-shirt with a dinosaur riding a tricycle screen printed on it. I think that says a lot. — Mara Dabrishus

we don't realize how many of our fixed views of the world are based on limited samples of reality. — Bernard Roth

I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Farslayer howls across the world
For thy heart! For thy heart! who hast wronged me,
Vengeance is his who casts the Blade,
Yet he will, in the end, no triumph see. — Fred Saberhagen

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well. — Shirley Manson

Good has become bastardized, made to look evil by evil claiming to be good until both good and evil are lost in the mix."
Griffin, Of Good And Evil — Gerald G. Griffin

...you'd be surprised at how much of human fallacy comes from the inability to read each other. In other words, we're always reading in people what we want to see. Some of us want everyone to love us, some of us think that everyone hates us (and thus this gives us a valid reason to hate them). — Karina Halle

The Templar and Hospitaller commanders had argued with Calpurnius, the master of the Shield-Brethren company, as to the membership of the team that would lead the upper-floor assault. Calpurnius had listened calmly to both men's arguments and then asked one question. There will be no horses on this boat. How will your knights fight? — Neal Stephenson

As though he was really saying that all desire for positive happiness is implanted in us merely to torment us and never be satisfied. But Pierre believed it without any mental reservation. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness. Here and now for the first time he fully appreciated the enjoyment of eating when he wanted to eat, drinking when he wanted to drink, sleeping when he wanted to sleep, of warmth when he was cold, of talking to a fellow man when he wished to talk and to hear a human voice. The satisfaction of one's needs - good food, cleanliness, and freedom - now — Leo Tolstoy