Sixteenth Chapel Quotes

#1. I'm not going for the sixteenth chapel.

Justin Bieber

#2. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.

Des Browne

#3. It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

John Taylor Gatto

#4. Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

George Eliot

#5. May I remind you, Howard, that mens means "the mind" and mensa means "a table"? But I expect in your case the two things are the same. No, no, don't scratch your head, boy. You'll get splinters.

Diana Wynne Jones

#6. Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Eric Berne

#8. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

Kate Winslet

#9. British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any

Charles Dickens

#10. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. If you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Shanalia Brown

#12. Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.

Patrick Chan

#13. Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but ... you were well away. Why come back?"
A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

George R R Martin

#14. You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

Henri Nouwen