Poitiers I Quotes & Sayings

No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost. — Hilary Of Poitiers

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path. — Edward Whitacre Jr.

Whatever it was Miller did, he did it because he thought you were worth it. He chose you, Danny. — Brooke McKinley

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death. — Diane De Poitiers

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's. — Diane De Poitiers

If you wake up in some field during a storm with an iron bar glued to your hand, obviously someone wants you to be a lightning rod. — Ryan Harding

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[Judaism is] ever ... mighty in wickedness ... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord ... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity. — Hilary Of Poitiers

Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift. — Louise Penny

were Huguenots who abhorred the Church to which it belonged. That huge donjon, built by the Counts of Poitiers, was still a place of formidable strength; but Richelieu would soon be in power and the days of local autonomy and provincial fortresses were numbered. All unknowing the parson was riding into the last act of a sectarian war, into the prologue to a nationalist revolution. At — Aldous Huxley

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. — Hilary Of Poitiers

It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it. — Deborah Smith

When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us? — Hilary Of Poitiers

When you've only got two choices, and you don't like either of them, make a third choice. — Andy Lane

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith. — Hilary Of Poitiers

See well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high. — Diane De Poitiers

Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals. — Louise Penny

You remember what else I said to you that day in the drawing room," he said. "I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours. I would give over my own life for your happiness. I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that. It is unfair to tell you this, I know, when you can do nothing about it." He took a shuddering breath. "How you must despise me. — Cassandra Clare

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. — Hilary Of Poitiers

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it. — Diane De Poitiers

For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text. — Hilary Of Poitiers

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me. — John Otway

Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever. — Hilary Of Poitiers

It is easier to win love than to keep it. — Diane De Poitiers

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys. — Diane De Poitiers

Isobel's heart crashed against the cage of her chest, beating against his. — Kelly Creagh

In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body. — Hilary Of Poitiers

There was a natural resource in the affective devotion to the saints and to Jesus, and a similar intensity of devotion inevitably became directed to the ordinary human.7 Eleanor of Aquitaine, the paragon of courtly love at the courts of Angers and Poitiers, was a grandchild of Guillaume, duke of Aquitaine, the first known troubadour. In many of Guillaume's love songs 'the vocabulary and emotional fervor hitherto ordinarily used to express man's love for God are transferred to the liturgical worship of woman, and vice versa.'8 The layering of Christian feeling and the new romantic spirit is also witnessed in the roman courtois, the epic stories filled with legendary material and hinged on figures of woman, mystery and quest. — Anthony Bartlett

No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much. — Margaret Atwood

Most of history is indisputably written by the winners, yet "winning" at Poitiers actually meant that the economic, scientific, and cultural levels that Europeans attained in the thirteenth century could almost certainly have been achieved more than three centuries earlier had they been included in the Muslim world empire. — David Levering Lewis

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you. — Hilary Of Poitiers

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence. — Diane De Poitiers

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike. DIANF DE POITIERS, 1499-1566, MISTRESS OF HENRI II OF FRANCE — Robert Greene

However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish. — Hilary Of Poitiers

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane De Poitiers

The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore. — Hilary Of Poitiers

Tact is good taste in action. — Diane De Poitiers

The man patrolling his prejudices never sleeps. — Steven Erikson

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct. — Diane De Poitiers

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. — Diane De Poitiers