Quigley Catholic Quotes

#1. No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

John Ruskin

#2. You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#4. Another time might be easier than this one, but there's only the time you're in, thinks Enid. And it's always going to be lacking somehow. Best to spend some of your moments here on earth noticing what else is here with you instead of concentrating solely on your own misery.

Helen Humphreys

#5. When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

Christian Louboutin

#6. There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, then all fell to work.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

#7. Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.

Teri Hall

#8. What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.

Carrie Vaughn

#9. I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

Ashley Wagner

#10. Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being ... Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured.

Gary Inbinder

#13. The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

Henry Petroski

#14. Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.

Charles W. Calhoun

#15. I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitive people trying to express the ineffable. I don't need to be a biblical literalist to love my God.

Thomm Quackenbush