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

• These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• 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

• You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • History
  • Future
  • Waiting

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• A legitimate enterprise had to have some moral basis, and the only morality the company knew was debt.

  

  David Graeber
  • Moral

• You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.

  

  Carlson Gracie
  • Should
  • Opponents
  • Missiles

• Silence is safer than speech.

  

  Epictetus
  • 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