Onoto Watanna Quotes & Sayings

I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those. — Karen Armstrong

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. — Anthony Bourdain

Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else. — Heidi Heilig

Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son and our brother is Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. All the younger brothers try to imitate the elder Brother in love and honor towards God and the Immaculata, our common parents, and from the Immaculata they try to love the divine elder Brother, the ideal of sanctity who deigned to come down from heaven to be incarnated in her and to live with us in the tabernacle ... — Maximilian Kolbe

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic. — Peter Capaldi

We know too much for one man to know too much. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner. — John Ruskin

Over to kiss him on the cheek. "Just so you know, I'm right here," Mom — John Green

Somethin in me has been set free from a cage I never knew was there. It flies with Yellachile at night, and we go together on the wind. — Robert McCammon

There's nothing sexy about cancer. — Kris Carr

As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments. — Theophan The Recluse

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist. — Jessica Ennis

People get nervous when things move to Friday. Friday has become a landscape where shows just don't do very well as business for the network. — J.H. Wyman

Grocery shopping was intimidating...the aisles were filled with everything from jumbo to miniature travel-sized rations. Who could I call to ask, "Does the size even matter?" I dare not ask my ex-wife. — Tez Brooks