Basil Hume Quotes

#1. The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Basil Hume

#2. One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.

John Grisham

#3. Midlife crises are the best-funded stage of rebellion, because, finally, the rebel himself can lavish the amount of money he feels befits the depth of his self-pity.

Alex Sheshunoff

#4. Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. - Osho

Robin S. Sharma

#5. I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

Andy Roddick

#6. We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Basil Hume

#7. Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Basil Hume

#9. Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.

Tomm Moore

#10. Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt.

Jill Telford

#11. Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10,

Winona Ryder

#12. By travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.

Andrew James Pritchard

#13. Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

Basil Hume

#14. From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Basil Hume

#15. Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Basil Hume

#16. Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Basil Hume

#17. Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way.

Edward Kennedy

#18. There's a limit to laziness. We still haven't found it yet.

Anonymous

#19. Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Basil Hume

#20. English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Jim Crace

#21. What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Herta Muller

#22. There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Andre Gide

#23. If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Baltasar Gracian