Brigit of Kildare Quotes
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
