St. Gregory Quotes

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier

There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

But a lady forced is never a lady won

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.

The only consistent response for a relativist is, "Pushing morality is wrong for me, but that's just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with you. Please ignore me.

That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.

Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain

Should I get married? Should I be good?

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes

To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose, ” she said, and slyly added, “you have to plant an accidental.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark.

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

Come what may and hell to pay.

You can't do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united.

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

A speeding bullet from a speeding car could not penetrate his heart

We cannot totally understand God but we can totally love God. Embrace God.

To get girls he had figured out that all you had to do was talk little, the bare minimum, and listen much, without ever passing judgment. [Mister Gregory]

What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

I will not send you [Raimondo], they might murder you, but I do not think they will do anything to Catherine - she is a woman and they have great respect for her.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.

It is best to live life gulping down one’s anxiety and flying higher than anybody else.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs

Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.

When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.

It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry.

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.