Qualis Quotes & Sayings

If Jesus returned their looks, these angry men would not see his look as it really is but would transform it into a mirror of their own anger. Their own challenge, their own provocation, is what they would read in the look of Jesus, no matter how peaceable it really is, and they would feel provoked in return. The confrontation could no longer be avoided and would bring about what Jesus is trying to prevent, the stoning of the victim. Jesus avoids thus even the shadow of provocation. When — Rene Girard

Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way. — Deirdre O'Kane

I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] — Horace

We have now the precious opportunity to find out for ourselves whether the words we have heard and read so often can be taken literally: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added until you'. — Maria Von Trapp

Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was. — Francesca Lia Block

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. — Thomas Browne

He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out. Sometimes it almost seemed as if they were thinking one thing and talking about something else completely, and you didn't know what to believe: the thing they said or the thing they didn't. — Alice Hoffman

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death. — Alveda King

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. — Paul Eldridge

PMS? You're damned right I have PMS! It stands for Pass My Shotgun, which means you'd better sleep with one eye open, buster. — Jane Graves

When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from. — Ian Thorpe

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life. — Keith Urban

Non sum qualis eram -I am not what I used to be — Jenna Maclaine

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. — Charles Kuralt