Antonin Sertillanges Quotes

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

Antonin Sertillanges

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

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• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

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• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

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• There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

  

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• If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

  

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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

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• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

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• I'm not super into sports.

  

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• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

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• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

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• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  

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• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

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• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

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• Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

  

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• Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.

  

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• Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?

  

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• I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

  

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• It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

  

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• Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.

  

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• It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

  

  Antonin Sertillanges
  • Truth
  • Road
  • Choosing