Monsignor Jim Vlaun Quotes & Sayings

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy. — Peter Cundall

Girls are so much nicer than men (apart from Tom-but homosexual). — Helen Fielding

Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing! — Ripley Patton

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens. — Ryan Lochte

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa. — Andres Serrano

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. — James McCosh

The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer. — Italo Calvino

Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass, in every insect's wing, in every bacterium cell, is the history of the third planet from the Sun in a Solar System making its way lethargically around a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its shape, form, function, colour, smell, taste, molecular structure, arrangement of atoms, sequence of bases, and possibilities for the future are all absolutely unique. There is nowhere else in the observable Universe where you will see precisely that little clump of emergent, living complexity. It is wonderful. — Brian Cox

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like. — Ernie Hudson

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. — William Law