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...

Brigit of Kildare

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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.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • She
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Age
  • Universe
  • Objects

• 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.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Live
  • Dog

• 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.

  

  Frank Church
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Solitude

• 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.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Experience
  • High
  • Apathy

• 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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Job
  • Man
  • Parish

• The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Law
  • Gravity
  • Isaac Newton

• Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Truth
  • Awful
  • Depravity

• To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.

  

  Michael Beck Die Fantastischen Vier
  • Movies
  • Involved
  • Certainly

• The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Man
  • Virtue
  • Sake

• First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Victim

• How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Difference
  • My Mind
  • Cherish

• It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...

  

  Brigit of Kildare
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