Saint Augustine Quotes

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Best
  • Quality

• I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Old

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Perfect
  • Share
  • Salad

• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Marriage

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Good
  • Why
  • Too Much

• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thoughts

• 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

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • History
  • Famous
  • Weather

• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Moral

• I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • School
  • Dad

• Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

  

  Georgette Mosbacher
  • Universe
  • Creating
  • Phone

• I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Walking

• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Will
  • Angel
  • Hear