Paul Adefarasin Quotes

Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise. ~ Paul Adefarasin

These daydreams persisted like an alternate life ~ Paul Murray

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General. ~ Vincent De Paul

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character. ~ Paul Tillich

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them. ~ Paul Ince

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective. ~ Paul Harvey

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't. ~ Paul Newman

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive. ~ Caroline Paul

This is the girl, here, this girl with a ruined look who touches me and whom I love. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Secret societies ... like the Skulls or the Free Masons?"
"What do you know about them?" he asked, feeling me out.
"Limited. I've seen a couple of movies with Johnny Depp and Paul Walker a while back. They're societies that have high influence over things like the American and foreign governments. ~ Nicole Gulla

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ~ Paul Theroux

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy. ~ Richard Paul Evans

What at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune ~ Paul Auster

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture. ~ Paul Goldberger

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. ~ Paul Keating

None are so poor that they have nothing to give ... and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive. ~ Pope John Paul II

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level. ~ Rand Paul

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. ~ Paul Lauterbur

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip. ~ Richard Paul Evans

When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity. ~ Paul Volcker

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent ... When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion? ~ Paul Gauguin

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. ~ Ron Paul

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible. ~ Paul Tillich

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it. ~ Paul Leicester Ford

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. ~ Vincent De Paul

The rest of the world was there for her to take at any moment she wished it, but she always rejected it in favour of her own familiar little cosmos. ~ Paul Bowles

A pulverized apple and a pulverized orange are finally the same thing, aren't they? You ~ Paul Auster

At the office I worked in before that, my boss required all employees to take a personality test that divided us neatly into one of four quadrants: Doers, Creators, Deciders, or Thinkers, categories that would then define our roles in the department. Most of the others were Doers; there were a couple of Deciders, too. I was the only Thinker. My first thought was, I think I need to get out of here. ~ Pamela Paul

He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man. ~ Paul Theroux

Funeral by funeral, theory advances. ~ Paul Samuelson

[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it? ~ Paul Keating

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination. ~ Vincent De Paul

Not to me," I said.
Kafka wrote his first story in one night. Stendhal wrote The
Charterhouse of Parma in forty-nine days. Melville wrote Moby-
Dick in sixteen months. Flaubert spent five years on Madame
Bovary. Musil worked for eighteen years on The Man Without
Qualities and died before he could finish. Do we care about any
of that now? ~ Paul Auster