Thomas Aquinas Quotes
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
Quotes to Explore
-
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
-
That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
-
I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
-
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
-
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
-
I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.
-
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
-
I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
-
Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
-
I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
-
He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
-
Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
-
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
-
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
-
You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies... It is not a life sentence, but a life of service.
-
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
-
The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.
-
Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.
-
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
-
Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
-
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.
-
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
-
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
-
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
