Laurentony Quotes & Sayings

The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You might say: why hasn't this happened to me? Because you have not given yourself over to the will of God, but you live according to yourself. Look at the one who loves his own will. He never has peace in himself and is always displeased with something. But whoever has given himself over to God's will perfectly has pure prayer. His soul loves the Lord, and everything is acceptable and good to him. — Silouan The Athonite

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I think the person who said that to me — Lee Child

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board. — Howard Schultz

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in. — Maggie O'Farrell

You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers. — Zoe Kravitz

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life. — Christian Slater

In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English Channel in a bath please.'
What actually arrived in the ear of the French Navy man was, 'Hello sire, I would like to fight a condom across a bath if you please. — Tim FitzHigham

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. — Ammon Hennacy

What is there? No one can say -because there is no one there to say. — Frederick Lenz

Robert Smith is a whingebag. — Steven Morrissey

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity. — Anne Enright

Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs. — Ilona Andrews

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. — Seneca The Younger