Mangione Magic Quotes & Sayings

I want them to make peace with the love of God. — Manny Pacquiao

[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame — Nina Garcia

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. — Robert Breault

And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, as silver bells,
Their falling chains shall be. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is the seed of all sins
of the vilest and worst of sins
in the best of men. — Thomas Brooks

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour,or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in. — C.S. Lewis

Hermetic principle often associated with the Knights Templar: As above, so below. — James Rollins

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master. — Albert Parsons

Six minutes isn't sex," I hear him
saying as my eyes crash shut. "Six
minutes is a boiled egg. — Sophie Kinsella

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created. — Joseph Stiglitz

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision. — Roger Mahony

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends. — Jim Chapson

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime. — Esther Williams

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. — August Wilson