Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Myself

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Control
  • Beginning

• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Poetry

• It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Law
  • Better
  • Realize

• Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Good
  • Great
  • America

• Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Abuse

• I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Art

• Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Life
  • Real
  • Together

• I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• When people change and there is nothing that you can do about it. We change, we hurt our people, we realise, we change again.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Hurt
  • Can Do
  • People Change

• I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Science
  • Words
  • Wonder

• I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Israel
  • Historical
  • Holocaust

• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Children
  • Book
  • Genius

• As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Science
  • Patience
  • Humility