Alphonsus Liguori Quotes
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Quotes to Explore
-
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
-
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
-
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
-
We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
-
There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
-
The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
-
I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
-
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
-
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
-
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
-
I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
-
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
-
When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
-
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
-
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
-
When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
-
Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.
-
Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you hope you will see, what hasn’t been that might be.
-
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
-
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
