Veritatis Splendor Quotes & Sayings

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! — Maria Augusta Von Trapp

She frowned, and the effect was so pretty he wondered if he was going mad. Why did he find this cranky, kooky woman so damned appealing? He knew for a fact he could go out tonight and drag home some hot, willing chick who would stroke his ego and never argue with him about anything. He closed his eyes and remembered just how good that felt. Willing women; god bless them. — Ros Baxter

The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary. — Robert H. Jackson

Look at them all. Rats in their cages ... their lives destroyed by love. I'm done with it. I won't be like them. — Jennifer Flackett

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows. — Gordon Brown

To conquer space requires just a single step. — Marty Rubin

We are just good friends. This sentence is enough to destroy at least one person. — Sarvesh Jain

Death is approaching,
life is departing,
but eternity is motionless. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The theology of glory is inseparably linked with the theology of the Cross. The Suffering Servant has the great mission to bring God's light to the world. Yet it is in the darkness of the Cross that this mission is fulfilled. — Pope Benedict XVI

Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both. — Francis Quarles

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc. — Laura Schlessinger

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy