Mortification Of The Senses Quotes

#1. If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

W.C. Fields

#2. He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

Alphonsus Liguori

#3. There is no great genius without tincture of madness.

Seneca.

#4. One did not fully exist without the other.

Kate Mildenhall

#5. My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time

Roland Barthes

#6. Then something happens, and we realize that all we've fallen for is the idea of something, not the reality.

Eileen Cook

#7. President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Conan O'Brien

#8. Do not let fear overcome your efforts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#10. I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Albert Einstein

#11. The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

Gary Johnson

#12. What think'st thou then of mee, and this my State,
Seem I to thee sufficiently possest
Of happiness, or not? who am alone
From all Eternitie, for none I know
Second to mee or like, equal much less.

John Milton

#13. Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. "Awful tripe," said Uncle Matthew. "Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him.

Nancy Mitford

#14. We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Patrick Stump

#15. Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#16. Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

Peter Brook