Augustinian Institute Quotes

#1. Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. It's your job to make sure your younger brother is safe. Do you understand?"
"What about when he's all grown up?"
"Boys don't ever grow up, my darling," her mother replied. "Not ever.

Lauren B Mangiaforte

#5. To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting.

Roy Scheider

#6. I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price ... I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.

Kristen Stewart

#7. I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have

Markus Zusak

#8. Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Fisher Ames

#9. I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Robert Sheckley

#10. It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this [press conferece] where one has to kind of think about it.

Gillian Anderson

#11. Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.

Solange Nicole

#12. Come summer rain and winter snow,
My love is there wherever you go;
Over mountains high and oceans deep,
My love will guide you awake or asleep.

Louise Courey Nadeau

#13. When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

Marilynne Robinson