St. Gregory Quotes
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.
If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.
They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.
I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.
Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.
The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
