Wilner Pierre Quotes

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

And, finally, about silence - An idle or unnecessary word is the
same thing as excessive speech; hence, Augustine says in the first
book of his
Retractions,
"I cannot call it excessive speech when what
is said is needed, no matter how many words are used."
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Solomon
tells us, "In excessive speech sin shall not be wanting, but he that
refraineth his lips is most wise."
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Where
sin shall not be wanting,
we
must especially beware and guard against the condition all the more
when it is so dangerous and difficult to avoid. This is what Saint
Benedict did, saying, "Monks should study silence at all times."
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Studying silence
is something more than simply
keeping silent,
for
study is the pointed application of the mind to accomplish a given
task. We do many things in negligence or even against our will, but
we cannot
study
a thing without acting with purpose and will
The apostle James, however, tells us how difficult it is to curb the
tongue, but also how beneficial it will be. "We all offend in many
things," he says,
but if any man offend not in word, then he is a perfect
man. . . . For every nature of beasts and birds and serpents
and the rest is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of
man, but the tongue no man can tame. . . . The tongue is
indeed a small part of the body . . . but see how small a fire
Pierre Abelard

Research is the highest form of adoration ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I decided to write this piece because my internal critic told me to write it. At least I think he told me to write it. You see, he only speaks French, and I don't speak any French, so sometimes there can be a lot of confusion. In fact, all I really know about Pierre is that he loves wine, croissants, and women with hairy armpits. ~ Jarod Kintz

I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside my own.
Until the next day I did not go to bathe, I wore no clothes and did not dress my hair, for fear I might erase some sweet caress.
That morning I did not eat, nor yet at dusk, and put no rouge nor powder on my lips, so that her kiss might cling a little longer.
I left the shutters closed, and did not open the door, for fear the memory of the night before might vanish with the wind. ~ Pierre Louis

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It's not that difficult you see,
To be all that you can be;
For the true secret to success,
Is simply this ...
ALWAYS do your best. ~ Danielle Pierre

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents. ~ Pierre Omidyar

I keep the white-belt mentality that I can learn from anyone, anywhere,anytime. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks. ~ Georges St-Pierre

As may be seen, there is only one sensible piece of advice to give to those who find themselves having to talk to an author about one of his books without having read it: praise it without going into detail. An author does not expect a summary or a rational analysis of his book and would even prefer you not to attempt such a thing. He expects only that, while maintaining the greatest possible degree of ambiguity, you will tell him you like what he wrote. ~ Pierre Bayard

Any slower and he'd be in reverse. ~ Andre-Pierre Gignac

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough. ~ Pierre Bonnard

I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train every day if I'm not hurt. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Who is all-powerful should fear everything. ~ Pierre Corneille

If, for example, I had just as much love as you had virtue (and that is surely saying a lot) it is not astonishing that one should end at the same time as the other. It is not my fault. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age. ~ Pierre Corneille

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend. ~ Pierre Corneille

The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him! ~ Pierre Desproges

Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'

Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.) ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid. ~ Pierre Salinger

The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves. Is this association practicable, and supposing that it were established, would it be likely to last? ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number. ~ Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war. ~ Pierre Laval

The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders. ~ Pierre Corneille

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ~ Pierre Loti

We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles ... Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution. ~ Pierre-Paul Grasse

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible. ~ Georges St-Pierre

This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world. ~ Pierre Trudeau

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. ~ Pierre Bonnard

You love -you- far too much to compromise for too little. ~ Pierre Alex Jeanty

Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away. ~ Leo Tolstoy

I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar. ~ Marco Pierre White

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. ~ Pierre Corneille

Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity, one that consists of adopting a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that protects you from drowning. On that basis, it deserves to be defended and even taught. ~ Pierre Bayard

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Becoming an entrepreneur is like walking through flames. You either ignore it, deal with it or be engulfed by it. You must realize when you make it, the burns will heal and you'll become a better person because of it. ~ James Jean-Pierre