Saint Basil Quotes

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

Saint Basil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: saint
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 330 - 379

Topics

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My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Jill Lepore

MotherHomeMeScaryAlwaysThings

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Time travel is such a magic concept.

Matt Smith

TimeTravelMagicTime Travel

At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.

Angela Ahrendts

DecisionStartYouCareerSometimes

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

Steven Michael Quezada

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The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Steven Tyler

TearsYearThreeNeverBandBored

I firmly believe that the U.S. has to honor its debt.

Steve Mnuchin

BelieveHonorDebtFirmly

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

Rod Stewart

NatureMoneyPeopleLookGenerous

I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated.

Missy Elliott

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I have to write. I have to be an artist.

Louise Erdrich

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I love smart comedy.

Jason Alexander

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Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while.

Domhnall Gleeson

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