Patron Saints Quotes

#1. A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.

George Eliot

#2. To put it in the contemporary vernacular, Baal and Asherah were in effect the patron saints of sex and guns and rock 'n' roll, promising to deliver a potent mixture of satisfaction to the desires for power, success, and pleasure. This

Iain M. Duguid

#3. Fat, Is saving our lives.

Robert O. Young

#4. Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#5. "Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them].

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Jude is my favorite of all the saints," he says. "Patron saint of lost causes. The saint to call on when all hope is gone. The one in charge of miracles.

Jandy Nelson

#7. To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Pearl S. Buck

#8. I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

Jean Racine

#9. The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Rachel Hartman

#10. Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

Derek Bok

#11. I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

Bob Lemon

#12. Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

David Lodge

#13. The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Honore De Balzac

#14. I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

Brendan Dooling

#15. His restraint was driving Connelly insane. He wanted to see Azariah lose it and totally let go. Damn, he wanted to fuck the control right out of him.

Elizabeth Varlet

#16. Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.

Marty Rubin