Thomas Aquinas Quotes

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.

Thomas Aquinas

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• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Want
  • Myself
  • China

• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Reading
  • Name
  • Breathe

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Day

• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
  • Animal
  • Human

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Never

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• My dad doesn't hug me enough!

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Enough

• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Place
  • Matters

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Start
  • More
  • Rallying

• It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Country
  • Think
  • Want

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Picture
  • Beauty

• Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Joy
  • Beauty
  • Range

• Then she added a sentence I will always remember: “the beauty of mind Cerullo had from childhood never found an outlet, Greco, it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and will be as if she never had it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Remember
  • Childhood
  • Beauty

• To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Beauty
  • Tribute
  • Virginity