Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• 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

• Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Society
  • Best
  • Value

• When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Take
  • Punishment

• It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Life
  • Money
  • High

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I just wanna hear my own voice.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Voice
  • Just
  • My Own

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Movie
  • Vampire

• I think it's fascinating that clothes can drastically transform someone's mood or the way they feel about their appearance.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Mood

• I always say I should do more yoga. Or do yoga - more would mean I do some. I've done none. But I always want to do yoga because I'm getting old. Nerves are getting pinched every other day, and I really just gotta get more limber.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Done
  • Yoga

• I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • America
  • Cool
  • Car

• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Faith
  • Humility

• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Evil

• And the body of a dead youthLies stretched upon the groundUpon the filthy pavementsNo reason can be foundBlack day in July

  

  Gordon Lightfoot

• It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Virtue
  • Humility
  • Fault