Ulysess Quotes

#1. I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

James Lee Burke

#2. You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#3. It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

Sebastian Vettel

#4. Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Trevor Dunn

#7. The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Ward Churchill

#8. One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

John Maynard Keynes

#9. For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.

Neil Jordan

#10. If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

Vincent De Paul

#11. I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.

Joseph Delaney

#12. O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind...

Gregory Maguire