Quotes About Friars

#1. On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn't keep in touch. They're probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

Craig Ferguson

#2. The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But

Jose Rizal

#3. But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

James A. Michener

#4. I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

John Wycliffe

#5. Despair makes priests and friars.

Martin Luther

#6. It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

Edward Gibbon

#7. The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#8. Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

John Wycliffe

#9. The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of
love and forgiveness into them.

Isabel Allende

#10. Roosevelt and Root deputized Taft to inform the Holy See that the United States would purchase the lands for a fair price so long as the hated friars never returned to the archipelago. The land would then be redistributed among the poor Filipino farmers.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

Jesse L. Martin

#12. The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

Sam Harris

#13. I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

Marlon James

#14. Or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit

Lewis Carroll

#15. I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. I should hex the IRS.

Laura Oliva

#17. Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

Max Anders

#18. Everyone loves Beyonce. If you don't love Beyonce, we can't talk.

Zendaya

#19. A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

#20. The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.

Richard Wyckoff

#21. I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

Ellie Goulding

#22. I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.

Lady Saw

#23. Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#24. A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.

John Berryman

#25. Dear Mornings,I know you hate me but don't you worry because I hate you too!

Sonya Watson

#26. When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

Neem Karoli Baba

#27. Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

Daniel Defoe

#28. A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.

Morris Chestnut

#29. A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

Barack Obama