Saint Augustine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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What angels guard, no longer dare neglect, Slighting thyself, affront not God's respect.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
