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Once we were on the high Plynlimon pass, we stopped to stretch our legs, change drivers, and make a short devotion to the shrine dedicated to the once-popular but now little-known Saint Aosbczkcs, the Patron Saint of Fading Relevance.
~ Jasper Fforde
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.
~ Stanley Kunitz
I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to do so, even today, shows how deep this connection is. I'm honored to be a part of this organization and so proud to retire as a New Orleans Saint.
~ Scott Fujita
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
And they all pretend they're Orphans And their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream
~ Tom Waits
the saint told her that more tears were shed over prayers that were granted than ever were shed over prayers that were refused.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.
~ W. H. Auden
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do: They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to dispair.
~ William Shakespeare
Thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
Plotinus befriended a Roman senator who had freed his slaves, renounced his wealth, and who ate and slept at the houses of friends, for he no longer owned anything. This senator, from the "official" point of view, was deranged, and his case would be regarded as distressing, which indeed it was: a saint in the senate.... His presence, even his possibility—what an omen! The hordes were not far....
~ Cioran
this would be no easy victory. "In truth, Alexander, you are so demanding these days that a saint would defy you, and do so simply for the pleasure of thwarting your schemes. You
~ Unknown
A grande bondade do santo – é que para ele tudo é igual .
~ Clarice Lispector
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
~ Unknown
Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
~ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
WÅ'aÅ›ciwie, to ja jestem Jerzy MichaÅ', ale ?e Å›wiÄ™ty Jerzy smoka tylko roztratowaÅ', a Å›wiÄ™ty MichaÅ' caÅ'emu komunikowi niebieskiemu przewodzi i tyle ju? nad piekielnymi chorÄ…gwiami odniósÅ' wiktoryj, przeto jego wolÄ™ mie? za patrona.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
It is St. Catherine's Day: in honor of the saint who was threatened with martyrdom on a wheel, we all walk in circles to our destination. At least, that's the theory. He has never seen anyone over the age of twelve actually doing it.
~ Hilary Mantel
Admired as a saint, defined by my rank. Combined with my strength, my time and my length.
~ Lil Wayne
This is St. Peter's
~ Linda Sue Park
Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Every other man is looking great saint after marriage.
~ Jerry Seinfeld