Seminarians Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought. He had never had the curiosity, he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel.
A man, on the contrary, should he not know everything, excel in manifold activities, initiate you into the energies of passion, the refinements of life, all mysteries? But this one taught nothing, knew nothing, wished nothing. He thought her happy; and she resented this easy calm, this serene heaviness, the very happiness she gave him. — Gustave Flaubert

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it. — Susanne Katherina Langer

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence. — Homer

You stole my heart, Regan,"he told her. "And I don't particularly want it back. — Tara Janzen

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. — Robert Graves

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously. — Maria Montessori

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more. — Martin Luther

The simplest explanation is usually the right one — William Of Ockham

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds. — Michel Chion

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf. — Glenn Reynolds

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. — Ansel Elgort

But it was difficult to remain faithful when all about you was blackness and exertion. — David Kirk

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop. — Naomie Harris

What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books. — Gustave Flaubert

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. — Mitchell Baker