Saint Augustine Quotes

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Never
  • Just
  • Been

• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Night
  • Man
  • Stars

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• I was surrounded by women and all I would hear is of them complaining about their shoes. Back then, 'comfort' was a dirty word in fashion footwear. This was before fur loafers or sneakers. So, I wanted to create a shoe that was like slipping your foot into a glove - something beautiful, feminine, and sexy at the same time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Time
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Movies

• I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Special

• I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I cannot live anywhere else except India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Live
  • India
  • Else

• Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • Work
  • Living
  • Cultures

• I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Feel
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Eye

• I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Time
  • Family
  • Want

• Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Ethics

• Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Writing
  • Song

• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

  

  Saint Augustine
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