Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted.
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.
I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.
But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
I'm more cerebral than I want to be.
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
There is no bigger motivation than playing in a UEFA Champions League final.
It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?
