Saint Jerome Quotes

#1. And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.

Amy Bloom

#2. It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Ming-Dao Deng

#3. It is so easy to point out what is the plain duty of others; it is so difficult frankly to acknowledge our own.

A.L.O.E.

#4. Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

Emmuska Orczy

#5. Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Ellen DeGeneres

#6. If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

LeVar Burton

#7. Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.

Martin Luther

#8. It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Jerome K. Jerome

#9. What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

Jerome

#10. When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Kenneth Grahame

#11. Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

Truman Capote

#12. It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Aleister Crowley

#13. The goatee was a neutral - unless you assessed it on style. In which case the fucker was a travesty of Rogaine proportions.

J.R. Ward

#14. A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt - but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish'd return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain.

Homer

#15. He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

Jerome K. Jerome

#16. The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#17. I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

Jonathan Franzen

#18. Miracles of grace must be the seals of our ministry; who can bestow them but the Spirit of God? Convert a soul without the Spirit of God! Why, you cannot even make a fly, much less create a new heart and a right spirit."48

Steven J. Lawson

#19. To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

St. Jerome

#20. I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.

Franka Potente

#21. Do not let the transient bitterness of the journey steal happiness from your life.

Debasish Mridha