Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Donohue

What we would like them to do is send them a message that this kind of hate speech which is designed to intimidate Catholics from engaging in public discussions can't be tolerated.

Andrew Greeley

God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God is lurking everywhere. Right down the street, right around the corner, there's God.

Meghan Markle

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

Robert Duvall

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Salma Hayek

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Saint Augustine

Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.

Samantha Bee

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

Kurt Braunohler

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Scott Coffey

He's been so focused on proving his innocence, and now he'll try to put his life back together.

Santino Quaranta

His suspension, it's not good the day of the game. I respect Peter's decision, I respect the head office and it's their decision. It's between Freddy and the team. We have a job to do and we're focused on winning MLS Cup.

Mark Patton

I think it's going to be important to stay focused and use that adrenaline. It's the last game here but I'm going to treat it as any other game and play hard.

Tony Anderson

I think that he has focused on regaining his sobriety.

Vince Borg

We are focused on the integration of Placer Dome's assets, people and projects.

Jason Richardson

I think we're too focused on the stars. When you focus on the stars, role players get off. Guys that usually don't have big nights are getting 20, 25 points. Once they get their points, the starters come in and kick our butts.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Mark Pellegrino

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.