Quotes
Quotes about Pen
How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. â¢Edmund Burke Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Nothing happens until something moves.
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.
