Road To Sainthood Quotes

#1. So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

Marshall Goldsmith

#4. His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.

Linda Howard

#5. Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

Garrison Keillor

#6. Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

Charles Simic

#7. He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Edmund Burke

#8. With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#9. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

#10. When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since.

Alfred Enoch

#11. A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Mo Yan

#12. The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Michael Drayton

#13. Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

Eric Hoffer

#14. I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

Patrick Stump

#15. I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

Anais Nin

#16. Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Ryan White

#17. The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Khaled Hosseini