Militant Catholic Quotes

#1. Rome had freed the Greeks, but on condition that both war and class war should end. Freedom without war was a novel and irksome life for the city-states that made up Hellas; the upper classes yearned to play power politics against neighboring cities, and

Will Durant

#2. Smell remembers and tells the future ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Cherrie Moraga

#3. If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

Ford Madox Ford

#4. And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets militant below.

Abraham Cowley

#5. She wasn't born for this kind of life. You have to be born for this like you have to be born a butcher or a barber, I guess. Wouldn't anybody be either of them just for money or fun.

William Faulkner

#6. Or maybe you're merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Jerry Spinelli

#7. Behind them, there was a massive bang, and they all turned as a young man welled and dropped something to the ground, which smoked and hissed.
"My Sensor exploded", he growled.
"I think we can assume some very serious demonic activity," Edgar said.

Cassandra Clare

#8. A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

Matt Ridley

#9. I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

Manti Te'o

#10. All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one,

Elisabeth Hasselbeck