This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry
We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn't get in our way.
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.
Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Love | Man | Marriage | Wife | Will | Woman | Happiness | Understand |
Every day, a framed poster of a mountain climber given to me by my daughter Trudy reminds me to ‘climb with care and confidence.’ I wholeheartedly believe in this philosophy, which is why in all my years in the restaurant business, I have never tried to overextend. I’m satisfied stepping from one plateau to the next, making sure we’re doing everything right before moving on. That way of thinking has allowed us to grow steadily into a 1.5 billion-dollar business with more than 1,200 restaurants, while responding to the needs of people around us. I know the best way to grow our business is to climb with care and confidence.
Children | Desire | Discipline | Life | Life | Marriage | Will | Child | Think |
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
Faith is the proper and adequate means of union with God. #6. Contemplation, by which the intellect has a higher knowledge of God, is called mystical theology, meaning the secret wisdom of God. St. Dionysius calls contemplation a ray of darkness.
Not only do we have to accept that God wounds us, but we have to accept to be wounded where He desires; we have to let God choose, because it is His right.
Circumstances | Excess | Marriage | Mortal | Soul |
A man’s style in any art should be like his dress — it should attract as little attention as possible.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
Joy | Marriage | Pleasure | Self | Weakness | Woman | Child | Happiness |
Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL
Her prayer was continual though she was habitually plunged in aridity. One day a novice entered her cell paused, struck by the celestial expression of her countenance. She was sewing with alacrity yet seemed lost in profound contemplation.
Faith | Heart | Marriage | Miracles | Order | Soul | Work | Blessed |
Stephen Sondheim, fully Stephen Joshua Sondheim
The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.
Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.
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