Saint Augustine Quotes
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
-
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
-
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
-
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
-
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
-
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
-
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
-
I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
-
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
-
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
-
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
-
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
-
Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
-
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
-
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
-
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
-
One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.
-
For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.
-
Once money goes into a charity, it is tax exempt, so that's a benefit you get. And in return, you have to use the assets of the charity to serve the public good. So if Trump is using this money basically to save his businesses, the money isn't helping people. That's a violation of the letter and the spirit of law.
-
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
-
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
