St. Clement Quotes

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

Wolves hate farewells.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.

Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.

For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.

She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

"Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.

Take the first step. No more, no less, and the next will be revealed.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from a string.

Why that was the stars, my little ones, ' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

It is far more difficult to ask the right question than it is to find the correct answer.

We are in the same boat

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.