Saint Augustine Quotes

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

Saint Augustine

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
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• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

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• My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

  

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• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

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• My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

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• Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

  

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• God makes stars. I just produce them.

  

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• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
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• One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

  

  Alber Elbaz
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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

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• If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

  

  Gail Honeyman
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• A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

  

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• God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • She
  • Wife