Octagonos Quotes & Sayings

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn. — Joseph Hall

Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature. — Bonaventure

All music is important if it comes from the heart. — Carlos Santana

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. — William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed. — Golda Meir

Your dream will never let you rest, it will keep knocking at your mind's door instil imagination which will lead to a creative mind. Let loose your imagination and begin to create everything that's given to you before the foundations of the earth. Dream like never before. — Euginia Herlihy

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — Saint Augustine

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free. — Ken Salazar

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us. — John Ruskin

I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me. — R.D. Ronald

Hotter than me? --Jace — Cassandra Clare

How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences? — Eric Maskin