Bonaventure Quotes

Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Door
  • Speed

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Lost
  • Everyone

• Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Service

• We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Bored

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Game

• 'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

  

  Joe Dempsie
  • People

• Women today are wanting to work in the workforce but also come home and learn to bake cupcakes, to do calligraphy, to knit a blanket for their baby, to 3-D print something.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • People
  • World
  • She

• What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Guy

• Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Desire
  • Human
  • Terror

• Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Conscious

• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  

  C. Wagner
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Violence

• Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Yourself
  • Surround
  • Lift

• We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Balance

• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Style

• I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not, and I've certainly had interviews with people in this radio show I've done that swear they've seen things or have had bizarre experiences with creatures, and so I think they're telling the truth.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Lying
  • Shows
  • Radio

• If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Speak
  • Slander
  • Tongues

• I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Happy
  • Loved
  • Reviews

• Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

  

  Bonaventure
  • Meditation
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  • Creatures