Jogues Chant Quotes & Sayings

The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bigger part of the tea. It is the richest part.
We are the same; our essence has gone into our children, our friends, and the entire universe. We have to find ourselves in those directions and not in the spent tea leaves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm wearing my good shoes, the patent leather ones with the bows ; and my red jacket with the yellow ducklings; and white socks. You don't go to Athens everyday after all. — Eugenia Fakinou

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored — John Anderson

My father was the quintessential husband and dad. — Sidney Poitier

Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours. — Charles Dickens

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. — Elinor Wylie

My father said to me when I was a child, 'Boy, set there until I come back.' That was his law and I had to obey him. He went off somewhere and forgot about me. I sat there all day waiting for my father and almost got a stroke from the sun.
I said to my son one time, 'Boy, set there until I come back.' You know what he said to me? 'For what?'
You're not going to cram down the throats of today's youth what got crammed down my father's. Young people want to know the facts now. — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. — John Milton

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking. — James Ellis

May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope. — Martin Luther

Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it. — Tadahiko Nagao

There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films. — Susan Sarandon

All of us, everyone reading these words, have made it this far in life. None of us would be here if we weren't genetically good enough. That's a rather encouraging thought. We celebrate certain people's appearance or their wit, but we are all so much more alike than we are different. The proof is in the living: We all made it. No matter how ugly you think someone else is, he or she got here just like (as) you did. There's a lid for every pot, as the saying goes. — Bill Nye

The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction - a lurid but natural reaction - to the violence of the Islamic world. — David Berlinski

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away! — Mehmet Murat Ildan