Casuist Quotes

#1. Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,
Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, ... All things wait for and divine him,
How shall I dare to malign him?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Think it not strange if you should frequently feel yourself to have failed, nor wonder if it should turn out that at such times you have best succeeded. You must not expect to become sufficient as of yourself; no habit or exercise can render you independent of divine assistance;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell

#4. Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

Raheel Farooq

#5. The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.

Frank Tipler

#6. I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

Charles Bukowski

#7. You kidding? So many preservatives in these things, I'll live forever.

Rick Riordan

#8. Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

#9. I blush as that word pops into my mind again, "relationship." Is this what a relationship feels like, I wonder
close, comfortable, warm, safe, thrilling, erotic, and smelling deliciously of pancakes ...

Elizabeth Finn

#10. Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#11. With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai

#12. I watched you fall in love with me. I saw the smile cross your lips when it happened. I remember that day. I was the first day I knew I had no heart.

Tara Brown

#13. Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Adrienne Bailon

#14. Since the dawn of time every one will die,
Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

Wen Tianxiang

#15. Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

Alan Caruba