Mauriac Desert Quotes & Sayings

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse — Pat Martino

Modern Orientalism embodies a systematic discipline of accumulation. Far from this being exclusively an intellectual or theoretical feature, it made Orientalism tend fatally towards the systematic accumulation of human beings and territories. To reconstruct a dead or lost Oriental language meant ultimately to reconstruct a dead or neglected Orient; it also meant that reconstructive precision, science, even imagination could prepare the way for what armies, administrators, and bureaucracies would later do on the ground. — Edward W. Said

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him. — Darrell Royal

Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it — Francois Mauriac

I'm a little superstitious. — Bill Parcells