Ex Seminarian Quotes

#1. When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

Pope John XXIII

#2. Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.

EL Seed

#3. When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance ... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Pope Francis

#4. the entering seminarian today has the faculties of a sixth- to eighth-grader sixty years ago, and the seminary curriculum cannot make this seminarian an adult by the time he graduates.

T. David Gordon

#5. And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

Azar Nafisi

#6. It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.

Nick Lowe

#7. At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

Bodhidharma

#8. There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

John Baldessari

#9. Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side's worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda.

Os Guinness

#10. You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Ben Stein

#11. The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

Leonard Boswell

#12. Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Agatha Christie

#13. I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

Rick Steves