Saint Basil Quotes

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

Saint Basil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Max Frisch

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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Jeff Tweedy

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Steve Harvey

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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Tony Snow

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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Rowan Atkinson

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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Conrad Veidt

ExpectationsEnoughHollywoodNothing

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Ciaran Hinds

PoliticsDirtySeenIrelandLot

I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?

Brad Paisley

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There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

Alison Jackson

ThinkLearnWonderWallKnowBubble

When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.

Suzan DelBene

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