Quotes About Thomas Becket

#1. Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered ... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith ... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Thomas Becket

#2. The flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout.

Anonymous

#3. I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

Matthew McConaughey

#4. Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

Arthur Nersesian

#5. There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

Tom Holt

#6. Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay

Oprah Winfrey

#7. I'd like to be the moon in your sky.

Debasish Mridha

#8. We are creators in the process of our own evolution. In this way, we are gods in our own universe. Self evolving gods, learning and expanding and interacting with a perpetual stream of incoming data

Ruben Papian

#9. I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Thomas Becket

#10. I felt like I'd just been picked last for the world's biggest game of kickball.

Ernest Cline

#11. My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. Walk to the well.
Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.
Whatever circles comes from the center.

Rumi

#13. For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

Cormac McCarthy

#14. You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

Whitey Ford

#15. Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people ... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Thomas Becket

#16. No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

Alessandra Torre

#17. Better are the blows of a friend than the flase kisses of an enemy.

Thomas Becket

#18. Guinea Pig never has the same name two weeks in a row. This

Marti Dumas

#19. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

George Washington