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...
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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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
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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.
Elie Wiesel
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
Kip Thorne
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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.
Martha Gellhorn
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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.
E. L. Konigsburg
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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.
Frank Church
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
John Metcalf
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'
Eric Sykes
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
William Cowper
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Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
Sean Penn
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I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.
Nicholas John Frost
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
Brigit of Kildare