Saint Peter Chrysologus Quotes & Sayings

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took. — Robert Frost

I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. — George W. Bush

It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand ... that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science ... It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality. — Rebecca Goldstein

Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience. — Ray Bradbury

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. — Theodore Roosevelt

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014. — Mark Rutte

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. — Annie Leibovitz

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. — Alice Walker