Clercs Quotes

#1. The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Julien Benda

#2. Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.

Joseph Addison

#3. A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Bernie Sanders

#4. Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

Laozi

#5. I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

Donald Miller

#6. We're so few in comparison to the past, where did all the souls go?

Paolo Bacigalupi

#7. I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.

Robin Lord Taylor

#8. To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.

Leon Spinks

#9. No actor wants to play to an empty house.

Ian McKellen

#10. Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

Mo Ibrahim

#11. To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Alan Kay

#12. When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

Martin Luther

#13. I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Charlton Heston

#14. I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

John Wayne

#15. The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before.

Francis Chan