Canonized Quotes

#1. Well, now, look at you, is that a halo? Did you get canonized while I wasn't looking? Am I addressing St. Stefan now?

L.J.Smith

#2. It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?

Sarah Schulman

#3. It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

Murray Kempton

#4. I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

Frederick The Great

#5. Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church ... The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.

Lino Rulli

#6. I am not mad: I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should I forget! Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;

William Shakespeare

#7. In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint.

James A. Haught

#8. Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints ...

John Smith

#10. One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.

Gene Luen Yang

#13. Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#14. Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.

Matisyahu

#15. In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#16. Even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

Benedict Groeschel

#17. An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.

John Galsworthy

#18. If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

Cory Booker

#19. People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#20. This is not at all funny."
"Which is why I'm not laughing.

Dani Alexander

#21. Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Steve Toltz

#22. Edmund Burke in his critique of the French Revolution. Any society, he wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France, which destroys the fabric of its state, must soon be "disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality".

Tony Judt

#23. I'm kidnapped by aliens, forced to eke out a living on an ice planet, and now I'm basically married to Mr. Tall, Dark, and Super Pissy.

Ruby Dixon

#24. I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.

Blake Crouch

#25. There are two types of men in this world
one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

Donald Miller

#26. Ask God to show you specific areas in your life that require his special "renewing" attention.

Max Lucado

#27. Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

Theodore Dreiser

#28. Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn - and probably always would be.
"Why?" he said to his lover.
"Because I want you for however long I have you.

J.R. Ward

#29. A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there is finally no telling exactly where it begins, where it ends, or where it places you now.

Chang-rae Lee

#30. Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me

Don Darkes

#31. The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.

Kate Morton

#32. Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.

Danny Meyer