Magnificat Podcast Quotes & Sayings

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged. But the thing I didn't know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you're wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don't land right. — Mickey Rourke

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor. — Michael J. Kannengieser

We need to focus not only on what we provide to the customer, but on how we provide it. — Robert Bacal

This was the argument put forward during the War when the expenditure on the army and navy had to be met; and this was the argument put forward in Germany and Austria after the War when a part of the population had to be provided with cheap food, the losses on the operation of the railways and other public undertakings met, and reparations payments made. The assistance of inflation is invoked whenever a government is unwilling to increase taxation or unable to raise a loan; that is the truth of the matter. — Ludwig Von Mises

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. — Eric Hoffer

Don't let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to manage them because they don't have the dreams to fulfill; you have the dreams. — Israelmore Ayivor

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten. — Brandon Sanderson

I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

No matter how many women I've kissed over the years, your lips are the ones that still haunt me. — Cathryn Fox

The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it. — Meher Baba

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. — Ruth Rendell

Direct rule by the superrich invites a dangerous amount of scrutiny. — Jane Mayer

I reached between the seats to the backseat, where her purse was on the floor. It was the size of a grocery bag and it weighed a ton.
"What the hell do you have in this thing?"
"Everything."
I didn't ask for further explanation. I managed to pull the bag up to the front seat, open it, and find her iPad. I put the bag on the floor between my feet, lest I pull a muscle leveraging it into the back again. — Michael Connelly

I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city. — Richard Li