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

• People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

  

  Charlaine Harris
  • People
  • Culture

• 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

• I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys and give people the incentives and opportunities to actually grow this economy, put more people to work, get the middle class really feeling like they're back in business.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Economy
  • Opportunities

• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods’ promises did not point to or include the divine. Instead, they suggested that we are becoming divine as we develop such amazing intelligence within smaller and smaller devices, so small that a point of Singularity will blur humanity with machine, our minds with eternity. Should we find this inspiring or distressing? What is the telos of technology—the end goal?

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Faith
  • Technology
  • Divine

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

  

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