Vincent > Vincent's Quotes

“He realized things that other boys his age would not, including that life was hard but sweet, that life was a long series of losses and that you had to hold on tight to what you loved as long as you had any strength left. He knew that evil dwelt behind kind and familiar faces but that not all evil was hidden, that sometimes evil was brazen because it knew you didn’t want to believe it existed, and it mocked you by its brazenness. He realized that no one could save the world because the world didn’t want to be saved, that all he could hope to rescue from the fires of this world were those who were most precious to him, his family and—if he ever had any—his friends, and that it was prideful in the extreme to think he could do more, just as it might be damning not to try.”
― Dean Koontz, Darkness Under the Sun

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.”
― Carl Hiaasen

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.”
― Steve Martin

“Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.”
― Mother Angelica

“If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.”
― Steve Martin

“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.”
― Mother Angelica

“It is vanity then to seek after, and to trust in, the riches that shall perish. It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high. It is vanity to follow the desires of the flesh and be led by them, for this shall bring misery at the last. It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life. It is vanity to take thought only for the life which now is, and not to look forward to the things which shall be hereafter. It is vanity to love that which quickly passeth away, and not to hasten where eternal joy abideth. 5.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“with every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.”
― Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners

“Our new battle is not with overt Marxist tyranny, but with something more subtle—an irreligious government that wants to agglomerate ever more power over our lives in the name of making things fairer and keeping people happier, of smoothing over our differences and soothing our fragile egos.”
― John Zmirak, Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism

“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
― Lou Holtz

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War

“Those who tell you the truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.”
― Mother Angelica

“7 hour sleep diet worked great. Will power held beautifully.”
― Steve Martin

“Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.”
― Mother Angelica

“he became aware of an entire world of the spirit about which he had been taught nothing in the seminary and which seemed to flourish as the dark underside of life in his beloved New York.”
― Malachi Martin, Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans

“Listen: There are two things the Devil is deathly afraid of: fervent Communions and frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want Our Lord to grant you many graces? Visit him often. Do you want Him to grant you only a few? Visit Him only seldom. Do you want the Devil to attack you? Rarely visit the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want the Devil to flee from you? Visit Jesus often. Do you want to overcome the Devil? Take refuge at Jesus’ feet. Do you want to be overcome by the Devil? Give up visiting Jesus. Visiting the Blessed Sacrament is essential, my dear boys, if you want to overcome the Devil. Therefore, make frequent visits to Jesus. If you do that, the Devil will never prevail against you.”
― Paul Thigpen, Manual for Spiritual Warfare

“The only thing worse than having a hangover, in my opinion, is being hungover and middle-aged.”
― Dani Amore, Dead Wood

“Some women are beautiful like crystal. Cold, cool lines. Others have the beauty of a glowing fire.”
― Dani Amore, Dead Wood

“Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Chomp

“Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.”
― Steven Barnes

“Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you’re Right, the Left is gonna hate.”
― Michelle Malkin

“Probably my greatest attribute that qualified me for being a good private investigator was the fact that I simply loved annoying the hell out of people.”
― Dan Ames, Easy Prey

“God does not punish, just as the Church no longer condemns, except those who stay faithful to Tradition. (p. 61)”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.”
― Michelle Malkin

“If you were accused and arrested for being a Christian, would there be sufficient evidence to convict you?”
― Jesse Romero, Catholics, Wake Up!: Be a Spiritual Warrior

“In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.”
― Deal W. Hudson, How to Keep From Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Resist Cultural Indoctrination

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx