St Josaphat Quotes & Sayings

Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. — E. M. Forster

For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living. — Joseph Conrad

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States. — Charles Duke

Life isn't about the things you can't have... It is about those blessings you do find along the way. — A. Lee Martinez

But it's no ordinary apple tart. It's the apple tart of hope. After you've taken a bite, the whole world will look almost completely different. Things will start to change and by the time you've had a whole slice you'll realise everything is going to be okay. — Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

...linen is a fabric that wrinkles like Jack Nicholson's balls without Botox. — Anna Kendrick

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. — James Hillman

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans. — Tod Machover

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue. — Plato

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. — Don DeLillo

I feel like I'm really lucky. — Kate Beckinsale

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. — Paul Claudel

That bar also delineated the realm of sweat and hourly wage, the working world that college was educating me to leave. Rewards in that realm were few. No one congratulated you for clocking out. Your salary was spare. The Legion served as recompense. So the physical comforts you bouth there - hot boudain sausage and cold beer - had value. You attended the place, by which I mean you not only went there but gave it attention your job didn't deserve. Pool got shot not as metaphor for some corporate battle, but as itself alone. And the spiritual comforts-friendship, for instance - couldn't be confused with payback for something you'd accomplished, for in the Legion everybody punched the same clock, drew the same wage, won the same prize. — Mary Karr

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy. — Nicholas Negroponte