Novenas Quotes

#1. Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?

Italo Calvino

#2. Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.

Philip Zaleski

#4. Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised[*] Holy Spirit through faith.

Anonymous

#5. What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Patrice Leconte

#6. I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

Leila Janah

#7. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Abraham Lincoln

#8. A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Norman Vincent Peale