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“Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?”
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“St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.”
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“I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.”
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“When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.”
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“I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.”
Source : "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.
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“Residues arise... naturally in several branches of analysis... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results...”
Source : "Oeuvres completes". Book by Augustin-Louis Cauchy (Serie 2, Tome 6, "Sur un nouveau genre de calcul analogue au Calcul infinitésimal", pp. 23-37, translated), 1826.
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“I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.”
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“To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.”
Source : Roger Ebert (2011). “Life Itself: A Memoir”, p.291, Hachette UK