Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Words
  • Inspire

• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Disney
  • Almost
  • Deeply

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • New
  • New York
  • Divorce

• Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Together
  • More
  • Ever

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Attention
  • Aim

• Choose again.

  

  Dan Simmons

• Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • School

• Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Habit

• Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mistake

• Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Hand

• Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World

• Life is a four-letter word.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Life

• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Betrayal

• When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Forces
  • Possibilities
  • Falls

• The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.

  

  Deborah King
  • Worst
  • Ourselves
  • Damaging

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Technology

• Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Prayer
  • Wine
  • Heart Of Man