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
-
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
-
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.
-
No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
-
We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
-
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
-
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
-
Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
-
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
-
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
-
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
-
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
