Saint Augustine Quotes

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • College
  • Coaching

• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Economic

• You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Know
  • Stand

• Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Soul

• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Work
  • Different
  • Nature

• At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Found
  • Iraq
  • Location

• I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.

  

  Gabe Jennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Running

• The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Long
  • Term

• For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Liberty
  • Century
  • Granted

• In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

  

  Vittorio Gassman
  • World
  • Real
  • Hours

• About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Reading
  • Grief
  • Americans

• If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Face
  • Punishment

• We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Risks
  • Cause
  • Complaint

• Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Research
  • Cause
  • Effect

• Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Fear
  • Punishment
  • Dread

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr