Canonizing Quotes

#1. The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

PLO Lumumba

#2. According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already (that) I might not have all the attributes that usually that the Church looks for when canonizing somebody because I'm supposed to be dead already.

Lino Rulli

#3. The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

Jeff Iorg

#4. If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

Jose Limon

#5. I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

David E. Kelley

#6. She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

Fredrik Backman

#7. The sky had started off bluffing, convoys of dark clouds scurrying across like sheep to market. But by afternoon a perfect blue canopy stretched from horizon to horizon.

Abraham Verghese

#8. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Alice Paul

#9. Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.

Mark Shand

#10. The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

#11. You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

Nicolas Cage

#12. Don't ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

K. Howard Joslin

#13. America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

Arianna Huffington