Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!Bernard of Clairvaux
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
Laura Dern -
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
Aaron Swartz -
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
Ursula Burns -
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
Dan Quayle -
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
Randy Schekman -
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain
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Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
Oswald Chambers -
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes -
He started when he was 17. It's great, but it's not the stuff I care about. It's something he'll look back on some day and say, 'That's remarkable.
Phil Jackson -
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
William James -
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
William Camden -
Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
Gavin Newsom -
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Ivan Turgenev -
As we meditate on the undeserved mercy of God in forgiving our sins, we will freely grant forgiveness and kindness to our husbands and children.
Carolyn Mahaney -
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
Bernard of Clairvaux