St Ambrose Sayings

#1. Such efforts show the truth of the remark of St. Ambrose: that the saints were no less liable than ourselves to fall into faults; but that they had greater care to practise virtue, and to correct the faults into which they fell.

Candide Chalippe

#2. Love is the Creator's greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent.

Dario Fo

#3. Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Robert Herrick

#4. I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

Mary Stewart

#5. Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. Wow. Talk about humbling.

S.M. Reine

#7. The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

Sander Levin

#8. Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.

Nalo Hopkinson

#9. I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

Heidi Klum

#10. Liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12. When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

Louis Van Gaal

#13. The difference between pushing my agenda or just living my life determines whether a listener feels like a target or a friend.

Richard Foth

#14. I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

Katherine Heigl

#15. I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

Aisha Tyler

#16. The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

Kristen Stewart

#18. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.

Walt Whitman

#19. In fact , the life is generous with who lives his personal legend.

Paulo Coelho