Trappist Quotes

#1. Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

Junot Diaz

#2. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.

Brennan Manning

#3. Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Chris Patten

#4. I should have been a Trappist monk.

David Blunkett

#5. I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Laura Lippman

#6. Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Thomas Merton

#7. I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Otto Von Bismarck

#8. When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning
and we will not be free again until we get it back.

Alan Keyes

#9. Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

Thomas Merton

#10. But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

Gabrielle Union

#11. To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

#12. You have the power and control to be whatever you want to be, no matter where you start in life.

Joey Graceffa

#13. But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

Liam Fox

#14. A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

John Stahl-Wert

#15. Awkwardness with the boyfriend who tried to drown you because he thought he was his own dead brother who turned out not to be dead. Probably not a lot of advice lying around for this particular relationship problem -Hannah

Emma Carlson Berne

#16. I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Rod Serling

#17. There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

Gary Snyder