Road To Damascus Quotes

#1. Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

Cameron Mackintosh

#3. Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

Kelly Masterson

#4. Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief?

Joan Bauer

#5. The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. Besides, I have no point of comparison," he declared, his eyes still closed. "That is the secret of a happy life.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#7. Well before physical dependency sets in, one of the first signs of addiction is an inability to, ironically, just say no. Now

Craig Jordan Goodman

#8. Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.

Andrew Mitchell

#9. Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.

Harry Shum Jr.

#10. The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

Conan O'Brien

#11. Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

Anita Brookner

#12. I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

Walter Dean Myers

#13. It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we grew up: no blinding light on the road to Damascus, no sudden feeling of maturity.

John Le Carre

#14. This was perfect dictator-logic: we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy.

Anna Funder

#15. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#16. Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. Saint Paul on the road to Damascus might have pleaded sunstroke, for example, and the world would have been a different place.

Alan Bradley

#18. I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Joyce Meyer

#19. There sitting in the middle of the bed with her pinky sticking out as she drank her tea like the damn queen of England, was my wife.

J.J. McAvoy

#20. He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] "anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President."

Mike Huckabee

#21. God created man to care for the earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

#23. Help save our environment.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#24. know this - that you hide more than your bones when you're inside of me.

K.Y. Robinson

#25. [On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

Katharine Whitehorn