Benedict of Nursia Quotes

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

Benedict of Nursia

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• For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

  

  Saint Bernard
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• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
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• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
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• Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • More
  • Accomplished

• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Past
  • Door
  • Angry

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Service
  • Start
  • Habit

• I'm a plodder, not a planner.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Planner

• From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Listen
  • Within
  • Unsaid

• You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

  Vasily Grossman
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• The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.

  

  Louis Agassiz
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• Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;Climbing, each, to his little four-square dreamOf love or lust or beauty or death or crime.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Growing

• I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Writing
  • Evil
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• So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the co-operation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Help

• My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Perfect
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

  

  LeVar Burton
  • Technology

• Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • World
  • Hand
  • Universe

• And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Peace
  • Pray
  • Associate