"Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Servant Quotes #Recollection Quotes #I Can Quotes

“When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.”
“Hard work's a good distraction.”
“We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.”

Source : Saint Vincent De Paul (2013). “Some Counsels Of S. Vincent De Paul : To Which Is Appended The Thoughts Of Mademoiselle Le Gras”, p.10, Read Books Ltd
“We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.”
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
“Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.”
“You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.”
“When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.”

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