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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he sai...
RACHEL HARTMAN Art is right reason in the doing of work. Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: ...
TWO PRECEPTS OF CHARITY, 1273 Now you have a new life. A new dawn. A new flower in your basket. A new ray of hope. A new chapter i...
GIRDHAR JOSHI To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 God usually answers our prayers so mu...
COVENTRY PATMORE According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
JEN POLLOCK MICHEL Maybe it's not finding a reason, it's trusting that there is one.
ANONOMYOUS. You're trying to find it. You're probably trying to find- the reason that you live- all by yourself....
NATSUKI TAKAYA Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross.
LOUIS DE WOHL To be rather than to seem.
ERIN MORGENSTERN Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called '...
RODNEY STARK Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather ne...
ERIC SEVAREID Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas ...
PAUL RYAN I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perditi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.
KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p...
JANE BENNETT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun
HANS FLEISCHER i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do ...
HEM KUMAR PUN Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l...
MIKE BOLTON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.
ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life.
ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
ASA DON BROWN I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow...
ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite.
ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.
ASA DON BROWN I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with no...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]
AESCHYLUS As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.
LAINI TAYLOR The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulge...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY (Aquinas) basically has four men. They are a very physical football team.
BILL POWELL Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it,” Evan declared, sliding...
REBECCA DONOVAN In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather t...
ALLAN COX Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.
CRISS JAMI For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured w...
FRANCESCA M. CANCIAN We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE ...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a t...
LAINI TAYLOR You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure ...
REMY DE GOURMONT Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for other...
MERLIN8THOMAS With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelso...
BUDDHA Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 We have all the reason in the world to...
JOHN TILLOTSON I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.
REBECCA DONOVAN We had the toughest draw of anyone in the tournament, but that's the way we want it. By playing top ...
KRISTY BUSH Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.
NEAL STEPHENSON A dream is a strange thing. Pictures appear with terrifying clarity, the minutest details engraved l...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are m...
IRWIN EDMAN It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men ar...
IRWIN EDMAN Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
STUART CHASE Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than c...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
ARISTOTLE We are seen as legitimate targets, as part of the problem rather than the solution, according to the...
MICHAEL WARE Let all people live in harmony
Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults,...
JULIAN THE APOSTATE Astrid found the hem of his T-shirt and pulled it up over his head. She unbuckled his belt and shove...
MICHAEL GRANT When you know your role in life, living makes sense because of clarity, and the loads become enjoyab...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mis...
J.K. ROWLING Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The end of all my labors has come. A...
THOMAS AQUINAS Live according to your income.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning fo...
REBECCA DONOVAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him...
LAUREN OLIVER Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuit...
FELIX KLEIN What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that...
ALAIN DE BOTTON The most effective way to preach the gospel is through example. If we live according to our beliefs,...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Are you kidding me? This is an issue that you need to consider according to your own principles rath...
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IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
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