"We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them."

-- Saint Basil

#Silence Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Return Quotes

“Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.”

Source : Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.”

Source : Howard Hawks, Scott Breivold (2006). “Howard Hawks: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.”
“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”
“Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?”
“We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.”
“She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.”

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