Cleric's Quotes

#1. A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Samuel Butler

#2. I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me.

C.N. Faust

#3. If there was ever a president who could be called our Charlie Browniest, it would be Andrew Johnson.

Daniel O'Brien

#4. [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

Blaise Pascal

#5. Confess and be hanged.

Christopher Marlowe

#6. [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.

Louise Seaman Bechtel

#7. Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

St. Jerome

#8. Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan

#9. There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

John Carroll

#10. To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

African Spir

#11. We are all but borrowed energy

Perry Covington

#12. There is no friendship in trade.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

#13. I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

John F. Kerry

#14. A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Ernest Gellner

#15. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.

Thomas Aquinas

#16. And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Stephen King

#17. The great evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane (1892-1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator, entertainingly replied, 'I'm really not sure, except that the Creator, if he exists, must have an inordinate fondness of beetles.

David Beerling

#18. Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Nas

#19. It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

Tom Robbins

#20. I WALKED INTO my house to see the knight and the wizard sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee. If you added in Julie's thieving skills and my sword, we almost had an adventuring party. "It's too bad we're missing a cleric," I said.

Ilona Andrews

#21. ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.

Mohsin Hamid

#22. Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

Joaquin Phoenix

#23. Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

Pope Innocent III

#24. When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap it around my head and say to them that 'I'm a cleric, you need to pray behind me.'

Hassan Nasrallah

#25. It was a strange thing to behold a whore in mourning - rather like seeing a dandified cleric, or a child with a moustache; it gave one a sense of confusion.

Eleanor Catton

#26. Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?
From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )

Zack Love

#27. We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Ruth St. Denis

#28. What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#29. I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between.

Mitch Albom

#30. We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mitch Kynock

#31. Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Margaret Atwood