Zu Vincent Quotes

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Without music I should wish to die.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?

The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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]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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Storytelling is the important thing.

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

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

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

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.

Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

Do not become the slave of your model.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.