Top 100 Quotes About Constantine
#1. Constantine's expression was heartbreaking - the countenance of a person who had been betrayed all over again.
Anne Zoelle
#2. Does anyone know ... does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because ... uh ... you've all been in charge pretty much since ... uh ... what was that guys name ... Constantine. He converted in, what was it, 312 A.D. I'm just saying, enjoy your success.
Jon Stewart
#3. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Kathryn Stockett
#4. Perhaps I'm just trying to get you to trust me implicitly," he said.
It was a very Constantine-like thing to say.
Anne Zoelle
#5. Constantine grabbed his elbow and never had I seen such physical relief cross his features before. Olivia rubbed her chest, and looked like she might cry.
Anne Zoelle
#6. Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.
Tyrone Power
#7. It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
John Stuart Mill
#8. Prominent Christians in Constantine's time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a "major"sin that couldn't be forgiven of those already baptized. Others felt anyone who did anything to avoid martyrdom were apostates had no valid subsequent ministry.
Thomas F. Madden
#9. I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British
Peter Milligan
#10. I looked back at Constantine, and for a moment, his expression held a look of longing so fierce that it made me blink.
Anne Zoelle
#11. I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
#12. Preacher: "This is the word of God!"
Constantine: "The edited word of God
Garth Ennis
#13. Tell me, Constantine, who was afraid of what?
There was no sense in answering. No matter what Con said, Ulrik would never admit that he was wrong and Con was right.
Donna Grant
#14. I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could," she exclaimed bitterly.
"Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you," said the doctor, pulling a long face. "Have you no regard for the proprieties? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking.
L.M. Montgomery
#15. Angela Dodson: Well, this has been real educational, but... I don't believe in the devil.
John Constantine: You should... He believes in you.
Constantine
#16. Still, as one ponders that progress from open commensality with Jesus to episcopal banquet with Constantine, is it unfair to regret a progress that happened so fast and moved so swiftly, that was accepted so readily and criticized so lightly? Is
John Dominic Crossan
#17. Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
Matthew McGrory
#18. Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top Gun movie. Since then, an entire generation of faujis had grown up thinking they could be like him just by buying those cheap rip-off sunglasses for 200 rupees from Zainab Market.
Omar Shahid Hamid
#19. From the reign of Emperor Constantine to the present, the Christian notion that sexual love brings spiritual death has been the cornerstone of Western sex law.
David Berkowitz
#20. Fetch Constantine, or I'll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel)
Don't touch me, or I'll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.
Matt Ryan
#22. I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
Kathryn Stockett
#23. Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.
Robin McKinley
#24. And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end.
George Pelecanos
#25. Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also.
Eusebius
#26. In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
#27. For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
Wendell Berry
#28. The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
Peter Milligan
#29. He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.
Mary Balogh
#30. All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
Kathryn Stockett
#31. Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine
Jamie Delano
#32. A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.
Roger Ebert
#33. When God's plan comes into action, you'd better sit back and hold on." - Constantine
Lin Stepp
#34. I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.
Matt Ryan
#35. Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#36. It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a well-established structure of authority as a prop to the imperial regime rather than exclude it as a hindrance.
Charles Freeman
#37. King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.
Lloyd Alexander
#38. The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
Dan Brown
#39. Constantine is like a dragon. he guards with fire the very few things he considers his.
Anne Zoelle
#40. Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.
Matt Ryan
#41. People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine
Jamie Delano
#42. Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.
Michael Cunningham
#43. Ever since Constantine made Christianity the official "imperial faith, " Christians have been trying to push the camel of power and wealth through the slender needle's eye of the vision of Jesus.
Kurt Neilson
#44. An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.
Edward Gibbon
#45. I sent a mass of thanks, love, trust through Constantine's threads, as I escaped. Resigned acceptance, irritation, and grudging fondness returned along the path.
Anne Zoelle
#46. It's like Finding Nemo." ( Constantine)
"How the hell is this anything like Finding Nemo? If anything it's like Mission Impossible."(Alexon)
"I have never seen this Impossible Mission and Nemo is cute." (Constantine)
Rosetta M. Overman
#47. The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil
Robin McKinley
#48. All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.
Kevin Constantine
#49. That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)
Jamie Delano
#50. Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.
Larry Constantine
#51. And while I initially resisted, the thought of touching her, of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well, damn, I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that.
Robin Constantine
#52. We are all Gods or Demons- exerting the energy of will to squeeze the anarchic creativity of nature into our own image.
John Constantine
#53. And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...
Constantine P. Cavafy
#55. Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled.
'We all deserve to die,' he answered.
Storm Constantine
#56. If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand - always.
Storm Constantine
#57. I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.
Storm Constantine
#58. It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.
Susannah Constantine
#59. There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.
Storm Constantine
#60. And what exactly is it that you do?"
"I do pretty much what the name implies. I shoot trouble.
Bard Constantine
#61. I want to know," he breathed, his tongue moving between her breasts.
"When do we get to be bad again?" She smiled big.
"Baby, I thought you'd never ask.
Stylo Fantome
#62. Are you crazy or delusional?" He grinned lopsidedly.
"Usually a little of both.
Cathrina Constantine
#63. When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#64. God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.
John Constantine
#66. Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
Storm Constantine
#67. You aren't going to die for me," I said fiercely, shaking him a little, using up half a container of magic to heal everything in him faster.
His smile was red. "Don't worry so, darling. I'm far too pretty to die.
Anne Zoelle
#68. In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.
Susannah Constantine
#69. The normal seething mass of emotion that never seemed to be directed at me was still there. But the elements that were directed towards me contained humor, disbelief, fondness, resignation, possessiveness and a weird jumbled mass that I couldn't identify - but it wasn't negative.
Anne Zoelle
#70. throat was so swollen and sore from screaming. The killer was still in the house. What if I actually saw him?" "Stop
Cathrina Constantine
#71. In Paris there are wide cityscapes like nowhere else. Habit has made us indifferent to them. But those who wander around the city - keenly sniffing the air, looking to be moved, to be amazed - are very familiar with these places.
Helen Constantine
#72. I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.
Susannah Constantine
#73. The bloody dagger thrust through his palm, it quivered there. It's tip grazed her shirt turning the fibers brilliant red.
Cathrina Constantine
#76. Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible
Constantine Manos
#77. The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.
Larry Constantine
#78. It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.
Susannah Constantine
#79. I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.
Storm Constantine
#80. You will always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere else in the world
Constantine P. Cavafy
#81. When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#82. Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don't in the least hurry the journey.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#83. I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me. (p.531)
Storm Constantine
#84. I kept thinking of her eyes, the depths of them, the way she looked right into me, and I wasn't afraid of what she'd find.
Robin Constantine
#85. Of course you aren't scared of me. I'm not the wolf. You are.
Stylo Fantome
#87. That grin was pulling me into the deep end of the pool. The scary part, the part that made me search desperately for some other task I could lose myself in, was that there was a small, insistent voice urging me to dive right in.
Robin Constantine
#88. When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#89. I'll ruin you. If Alexander doesn't do it first.
Anne Zoelle
#90. I will break you, Ren," he said, voice heavy. You need to understand that.
Anne Zoelle
#92. In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
Larry Constantine
#94. It's hopeless," Jordan looked at the priest, "It's too hard--the fight, I mean."
Father James said, "Hopelessness is never an issue, understand?
Cathrina Constantine
#95. No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.
Storm Constantine
#97. If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
Larry Constantine
#98. It was like solving a misleading math equation, suddenly it all made perfect sense...
Cathrina Constantine
#100. Con?"
He blew out a breath. "You exhaust me."
"No, I don't."
I caught his smile before he grew serious again. "I'll see what I can do.
Anne Zoelle
