Quotes of: Patron-saint Keyword

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Arthur Levitt

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Anne Rice

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint or they are not telling the whole story.

Life

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

Val Kilmer

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Vincent Schiavelli

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

Walter Wager

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Annie Besant

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Manfred von Richthofen

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Huneker

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Robert Gottlieb

Again, Syd had that feeling, the past as an echo, repeating itself as it faded. The poor had longed for Jubilee to save them from the powerful, and now the one-time patrons longed for the Machine to do the same. Every revolution believes it can retur...

Guardian

There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the altar of the patron-fiend of news, the newspaper supply shall suddenly be cut off and we find ourselves some fine morning...

This then is upland pastures: being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring

Perhaps when I first arrived on this world so long ago I may have known more. Now, though, I do not have knowledge of as much as I used to. The years, many of them, have changed this world and the great societies flourish with change. Although I feel...

A.N. Jones

Ron Carlisle: You don't like me, do you? Now, I can respect that. There's not many women that I can't make like me. Why don't you like me? Michael Dorsey: I don't like the way you treat Julie. I don't like the way you patronize her. I don't like the ...

Tootsie

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

The Complete Works of Neal A. Maxwell

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

The Fun of It

it was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color.

Game On!

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

John McGahern

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Lewis Grizzard

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers