Ladywell Convent Quotes & Sayings

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. — Thomas Merton

If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger. — Robert Greene

During a recent press conference, former President Jimmy Carter said he could never run for president today because he doesn't have a lot of money. Well, that and the fact that he's the famously bad president Jimmy Carter. — Jimmy Fallon

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. — William Cowper