Saint Augustine Quotes

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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• Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fashion
  • Out
  • Polo

• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • American
  • Parents

• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Doing

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Career
  • Taken
  • Enough

• I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Ridiculous
  • Stolen

• I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Rock

• In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • World
  • History
  • Change

• George W. Bush is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Proud
  • Texas

• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Beautiful
  • Wise
  • Labor