Massart Academic Calendar Quotes & Sayings

Every year ought to find us more fervent in charity; every day ought our soul to augment in strength, and be decked with new flowers of virtue and good works. — Alban Butler

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us. — Eric Liu

By nature we do not like the anxiety which spiritual concern causes us, and we try, like sluggards, to sleep again. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development. — Paul Kriwaczek

My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now. — Emil Cioran

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest. — Henry Rollins

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. — Duffy Daugherty

But fans, including critics, of particular movements of artists, tend to want what they love to stay the same, the regression is not to the mean but to an Edenic past that never actually existed. This — George Grella Jr.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. — Ted Morgan

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state. — Vashti McCollum

I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever. — Rebecca Hall

Well ... he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?
Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him. — J.R. Ward

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay. — Tony Blair

they think of themselves as being totally devoted to the work of God. But they are so consumed with themselves that when God himself comes, they never notice. They are not paying attention. They fail to recognize the presence of the very God they claim to serve so faithfully. What other word than blind can you use to describe them? — John Ortberg