Bishop Pompallier Quotes

#1. The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bailiffs realized they had to do something but the less they understood what it was.

Italo Calvino

#2. I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

Bertrand Russell

#3. In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Moliere

#4. It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

Aldous Huxley

#5. It was not his job at square leg to inform the batsman what I was doing. I did nothing for which I need to apologise.

Mike Gatting

#6. Not that incentives are always so easy to figure out. Different types of incentives - financial, social, moral, legal, and others - push people's buttons in different directions, in different magnitudes. An incentive that works beautifully in one setting may backfire in another.

Anonymous

#7. I beg your pardon," said Lord Peter, "I was quoting poetry. Very silly of me. I got the habit at my mother's knee and I can't break myself of it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Oscar Wilde

#9. God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

Shane Claiborne

#10. It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.

Tim Blixseth

#11. The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

Benjamin Graham

#12. I hadn't been a nerd, mind you. I'd just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.

Brandon Sanderson