Lacordaire 16 Quotes & Sayings

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? — William Wordsworth

To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right. — Lesslie Newbigin

From Aus B. Shurahbil" He heard Allah Messenger say: "One who strives to strengthen an oppressor and knows he is an oppressor has already left Islam.
Baihaqi — Ahmad Von Denffer

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. — Euripides

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward. — John Portman

When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
we find out who we really are. We're so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God's people, Israel. — Aaron Lines

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. — John Lydon

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist. — Norman Finkelstein

Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both. — Francis Quarles

There was also something spiritual about being in tune with ones own body, and being able to move it through space with no limits or barriers. — Ashley Kalym

I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"? — Molly Ivins

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe ... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes. — Christopher Walken

the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak — Georges Bataille

I'm actually trying to make sense of the world. There's nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. — Yue Minjun