Aughey Quotes

#1. A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Herbert Spencer

#2. God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

John H. Aughey

#3. God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

John H. Aughey

#4. In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Vicki Baum

#5. And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

Richard House

#6. The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

John H. Aughey

#7. There was a whole newfound confidence that came over me after having my son.

Ciara

#8. Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Julia Roberts

#9. Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

John H. Aughey

#10. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

John H. Aughey

#11. Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

John H. Aughey

#12. There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Elias Canetti