Saint Quotes - Page 28

We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.

If the Saints call, naturally I will consider taking their request to the Board of Supervisors. Because they're our Saints, too, and we're all in this together. But obviously, I couldn't do anything without board action.

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)

Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked it, and asked me to take pictures for her paper while I was there, but told me I would first have to buy a real camera - 35-millimeter. I got a little book that taught me how to load film. I read it on the flight to Paris. Hours later, I found myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower with Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol. It's all been downhill since then.

The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

You have the patience of a saint," I grumbled, slouching into a chair. "And besides, you don't hang out with him 24/7." "Neither will you. It's only 24/6." "Same difference. It might as well be 24/10." She frowned. "That doesn't make any sense.

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

When I went to England, to Saint Martins, I was traumatized, in a positive way. It was that British sense of transgression and the dark. Then when I went to Paris, I was doing couture, which everyone was saying was finished. Bullshit! For me, in the end, it was all a mixing of ingredients.

Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.