St. Vincent Quotes

Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Storytelling is the important thing.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.

Life has no friend.

I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me

Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.