Borromeo Quotes

#1. Borromeo also organized partial quarantines, especially for women, whom he regarded not only as more likely to occasion sin but as the primary carriers of plague (because, he said, they talked so much and constantly visited each other's houses).

Andrew Graham-Dixon

#2. The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.

Carlo Borromeo

#3. Life gives you what you create ... not what you deserve.

Vivian Amis

#4. I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.

Wink Martindale

#5. The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

Ruth Rendell

#6. Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

Alice Waters

#7. If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out ... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter ... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.

Carlo Borromeo

#8. Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.

Philip K. Dick

#9. Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Auguste Rodin

#10. A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau

#11. -How does someone win?"
-We're seventeen-year-olds with our own island. We're already winners.

Adi Alsaid

#12. Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.

Carlo Borromeo

#13. The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

Karen Kain

#14. I feel empty and purposeless, like the first day of summer after school ends, but I am free.

Lindsay Smith

#15. If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.

Carlo Borromeo

#16. But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

C.S. Lewis