Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.Bernard of Clairvaux
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman -
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector -
Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long -
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos -
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
Camille Paglia -
I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
Jackie Evancho -
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso -
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
Sam Abell
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
Samuel L. Jackson -
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.
Agnes Martin -
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
Maya Angelou -
I think all managers have to be so demanding.
Pep Guardiola
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There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr -
Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
Steven Yeun -
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman -
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
Al Pacino -
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
Bernard of Clairvaux