Saint Augustine Quotes
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Funny is an attitude.
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
-
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
-
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
-
I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
-
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
-
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
-
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
-
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
-
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
-
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
-
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
-
Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
-
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
-
I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
-
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
-
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
-
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.
-
Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.
-
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
-
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
