Monica Furlong famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
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resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
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If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
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What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.
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It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
-- Monica Furlong
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I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.
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To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.
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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
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I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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