Villers Abbey Quotes & Sayings

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time. — Russell Smith

Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The word "stone" for instance is not a stone, it is an oral pattern of vocal, dental and labial sounds or a scriptive arrangement of ink on a white surface, but man pretends that it is actually the thing it refers to. Every time he wishes to tell another man about a stone he can use the word instead of the thing itself. The word bodies forth the object in the mind of the listener and both speaker and listener are able to imagine a stone without seeing one. All the qualities of stone can be metaphorically and metonymically expressed. "I was stoned, stony broke, stone blind, stone cold sober, stonily silent," oh, whatever occurs. More than that, a man can look at a stone and call it a weapon, a paperweight, a doorstep, a jewel, an idol. He can give it function, he can possess it. — Stephen Fry

The successful entrepreneur's unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs. — Donald J. Trump

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home ... — Richard Crashaw

Credo quia impossibile.' I believe it because it is impossible. — Nelson DeMille

In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return. — Robert Fisk

THE MISCONCEPTION: Your fight-or-flight instincts kick in and you panic when disaster strikes. THE TRUTH: You often become abnormally calm and pretend everything is normal in a crisis. — David McRaney

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis. — Lawrence Summers

when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah