John Cardinal O'connor Quotes

#1. You don't bless what you love ... It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway ... We have to bless what we hate ... It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.

Graham Greene

#2. I heard your whispered fantasies so clear Softly told in my ear
I opened my eyes you weren't there
So real my dream, I was so aware
But we'll meet again so certainly
In our whispered fantasy

Astrid Brown

#3. The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman's great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promoting excellence in scholarship, advancing student dialogue and freedom of expression and inquiry.

Andrew Roberts

#4. Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

John Adams

#5. I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Tennessee Williams

#6. I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.

Kate DiCamillo

#7. People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Jacqueline Bisset

#8. In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

John Daido Loori

#9. (He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

John Feinstein

#10. In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Bernstein

#11. National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

John Adams

#12. I've been practicing serial monogamy with one loser after another since I was eighteen. You can't deny I'm an asshole magnet.

Avery Flynn

#13. Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

John Gray

#14. A library is all the university you will ever need.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.

Megan Abbott

#16. It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Pope John Paul II

#17. I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

John Burns

#18. Love had meant nothing to him but sawdust and cinders.

Virginia Woolf

#19. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

John Weitz

#20. She would give him everything. She would do anything to take away his pain, including offering up herself.

Sylvain Reynard