Mounier Emmanuel Quotes & Sayings

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth — John Dewey

Seen at Liberty University: I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due. — Kevin Roose

Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch. — Mora Early

I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself cornered into writing in a way that doesn't let you do your best. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Emmanuel Mounier

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians. — Catherynne M Valente

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations. — Emmanuel Mounier

[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies. — Gloria Estefan

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection. — Moliere

It's rather the possibility of friendship, unencumbered by feelings of attraction or shyness; the possibility of working on the same wavelength, as it were, with someone who understands you because he's a boy as you are, or a girl as you are. Committee work stifles the imagination, because people have to work down to the common denominator of what would be minimally acceptable to everyone. But friendship exalts the imagination. Indeed it is one of the things that the ancients said friendship was for. Plato suggests in Symposium that one of the highest forms of friendship is one whose love issues forth in beautiful and virtuous deeds, for thus the partnership between [the friends] will be far closer and the bond of affection far stronger than between ordinary parents, because the children that they share surpass human children by being immortal as well as more beautiful. — Anthony Esolen

If life had taught me anything so far, it was that I was responsible for my own fate. — Emme Rollins

is because you are kind and good, not a hard-hearted pitiless rat like Cluny. Please listen to me. Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others. You are brave, Matthias. Already you have done great things for one so young. I am only a simple country-bred fieldmouse, but even I can see the courage and leadership in you. A burning brand shows the way, and each day your flame grows brighter. — Brian Jacques

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies. — Talal Asad

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs. — Michael D. Higgins

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it. — Joe Pantoliano

Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press. — Muhammad Ali

Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God. — Joyce Meyer