Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

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• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Guy
  • Technology

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Know
  • Language
  • Civilization

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

  

  Kate Williams
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Grandfather

• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Back
  • Carry
  • Laptop

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Real
  • Food
  • Healthy

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Charity
  • Personal

• Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must recognize that real people with real problems are affected by the decisions rendered by the court. Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Real
  • Understanding
  • Justice

• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit

  

  Yamaoka Tesshu
  • Character
  • Perfect

• Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

  

  Simona Halep
  • Same
  • Top
  • Nerves

• Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Charity