Denis the Carthusian Quotes

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

Denis the Carthusian

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• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Communism

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Source
  • Pursuit

• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

  S. Ansky
  • Himself
  • Jew
  • Few

• I didn't have a record player.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Player
  • Record

• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Red

• In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Family
  • Home
  • Proud

• The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Respect

• The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Space
  • Friend

• …vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  

  Charles Dickens

• La Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Sometimes we'll sigh - sometimes we'll cryAnd we'll know why just you and I know true love ways.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Why
  • True

• There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

  

  Caroline Corr

• I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Music
  • Band
  • Punk R

• A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. 'People say you are a genius. Are you?' he asked. 'You might say so.' said the Master, none too modestly. 'And what makes one a genius?' 'The ability to recognize.' 'Recognize what?' 'The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Book
  • Selfish

• I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday, and I always have new music for them to play. My music is still progressing - just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it's not alive. The music is complicated, but it's about emotion. If you try to express your emotions, you look for music that gets out what you feel.

  

  Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Wednesday

• The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Realization
  • Illumination

• As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

  

  Denis the Carthusian
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Natural