Saint Augustine Quotes

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

Saint Augustine

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• Men
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• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Idea

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Peace
  • Positive

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Tangled

• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • See
  • Audiences

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Never

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • People
  • World
  • Working

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Black
  • Best
  • Color

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Measure

• There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Time

• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • Son
  • Sorrow

• As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

  

  Lily James
  • Different

• Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Men