Novitiate Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

...people don't take trips - trips take people. — John Steinbeck

The great educational value of the war against Christendom lies in the absolute truthlessness of the priest. Such purity is rare enough. The 'man of God' is entirely incapable of honesty, and only arises at the point where truth is defaced beyond all legibility. Lies are his entire metabolism, the air he breathes, his bread and his wine. He cannot comment upon the weather without a secret agenda of deceit. No word, gesture, or perception is slight enough to escape his extravagant reflex of falsification, and of the lies in circulation he will instinctively seize on the grossest, the most obscene and oppressive travesty. Any proposition passing the lips of a priest is necessarily totally false, excepting only insidiouses whose message is momentarily misunderstood. It is impossible to deny him without discovering some buried fragment or reality. — Nick Land

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are. — Barbara Kingsolver

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart
the moral nature
was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time. — David Lubar

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. — William H. Seward

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. — Katharine Hepburn