Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.Bernard of Clairvaux
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu -
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
Ted Danson -
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Karl Jaspers -
I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
Hansika Motwani -
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Calvin Trillin -
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson -
'I assure you, paladin king, that if I had a sword in hand, I would willingly cut out your heart, here and now. If you expect me to beg look elsewhere. The fool monk can bring me to my knees, but if I am not there of my own choosing, then calling it begging would ring as hollow as does your crown, yes?' -Artemis Entreri
R. A. Salvatore -
Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
Walter Scott -
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Irena Sendler -
'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
Patrick O'Brian -
She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
Neil Gaiman
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Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
Matt Lauer -
It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.
Linda M. Godwin -
I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
Jodelle Ferland -
I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
Kevyn Aucoin -
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
Jay McInerney -
Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.
Blase J. Cupich
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I never got a chance to be a teenager.
Agnes Bruckner -
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
Haile Selassie -
It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.
Jesse Eisenberg -
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle -
I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
Charli XCX -
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
Bernard of Clairvaux