Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

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• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
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• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
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• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
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• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
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  • Black

• I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
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• Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Family
  • My Life

• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Experience
  • History
  • Myself

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Children

• when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Long

• Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.

  

  Clint Black
  • People

• I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

  

  David Heyman
  • Time

• If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about after Reinhardt's death in 1967.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Death
  • Painting

• It's easy to be an educated fool.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Fool
  • Easy
  • Educated

• I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Childhood

• If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Fool
  • Master
  • Spiritual Life