Quotes About Vespers

#1. Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Francois Rabelais

#2. God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.

Valorie Burton

#3. Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.

Donald Ray Pollock

#4. With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

Valtteri Bottas

#5. Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#6. Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun.

Gordon Korman

#7. Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

John Steinbeck

#8. When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Al Yankovic

#9. Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Stephen Covey

#10. Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

Mother Teresa

#11. I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if you go all-out on purpose. Because that way you can still hide who you really are.

Lili Wilkinson

#12. The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time for some tasty hay! Haaaaaaay!

Peter Lerangis

#14. For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.

Jeff Sampson

#16. Come on," she said, smiling for the first time since she'd stepped on the plane. "We need to get to the bus before Ian plugs his iPod into the speakers."
Dan shuddered. "I'd rather face a thousand Vespers than listen to Beethoven.

Clifford Riley

#17. It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

Edward Gibbon

#18. Vespers In which the rest of the abbey is visited, William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo's death, there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much. At

Umberto Eco

#19. I don't mind seeing two guys kissing, you know, as long as they're clean-shaven.

Kevin Nealon

#20. Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

Kim Cattrall

#21. Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; and compline at bedtime.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#22. Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today

Rick Riordan

#23. He loved three things
in this life:
Vespers, white peacocks,
And old maps of America,
Didn't love children crying,
Raspberries with tea,
Or feminine hysteria
... And I
was his wife.

Anna Akhmatova

#24. Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

Dick Morris

#25. I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

Lisa Brown Roberts