Peter Damian Quotes

#1. We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.

Peter Damian

#2. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Chief Joseph

#3. We aren't born for ourselves alone. Wells couldn't abandon the others after the horror of that day. He needed to get back to help bury Priya, to comfort those who wouldn't be able to sleep. To restrain those whose grief and fear might turn into a need for vengeance.

Kass Morgan

#4. I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast - I was becoming typical.

Lorrie Moore

#5. Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

Peter Damian

#6. My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#7. There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

Peter Welch

#8. Father forgive me for I have sinned. -Damian

Peter J. Tomasi

#9. Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Ronald Graham

#10. Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength ... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

Peter Damian

#12. Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices ... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth ...

Peter Damian

#13. And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

Peter Damian

#14. Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

Peter Damian

#15. I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

Peter Damian

#16. Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Bruce Lee

#17. The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

C. JoyBell C.

#18. Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud.

Carl Sagan

#19. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.

Peter Damian

#20. They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.

David Sedaris

#21. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.

Stan Goff

#22. I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure where you know that you haven't done your best at one or the other: dying or living.

Marya Hornbacher

#23. Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.

Peter Damian

#24. You young people learned spelling by the 'Close Enough' method.

Garrison Keillor