Saint Augustine Quotes

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Not Knowing

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Story
  • Fiction
  • Line

• Anybody can leap off a building.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Building
  • Anybody
  • Leap

• People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Women
  • Sex

• Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Chess

• We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Option

• All living things on earth are kindred.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth

• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High

• From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Beginning

• The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Running
  • Chance
  • Projects

• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Rock

• Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

  

  William Goldman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

  

  Al Roker
  • Black
  • College
  • Silence

• Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Silence