Ursuline Convent Quotes & Sayings

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. — Robert Breault

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. — Richard Dawkins

Know why I smile so much out there? It's because I'm having so much fun. — Donovan McNabb

who have felt broken but keep moving forward. For all the ones who are searching for something beautiful in the world. You already have it within. — Jennifer Probst

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing. — Bernhard Goetz

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.

-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

Why... it means everything. It means that in the small amount of time you have to live, you can be whatever you want. It means that even though the universe doesn't care enough to give you what you want, it doesn't care enough to stop you from having it, either. So embrace that anarchy, and take those things for yourself. — Johnny B. Truant

Heaven never helps the men who will not act. — Sydney Smith

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change. — Louise Hay

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. — Suzanne Farrell

I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous. — John Le Carre

It seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful. — Marie Corelli