Sainted Quotes

#1. I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Jody Williams

#2. Ironically, we practically have to be sainted to get through the adoption process, but any fool can spawn and have a baby, tra la la.

Jen Hatmaker

#3. Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

Murray Rothbard

#4. We both had our first kiss from the same boy in college (a sainted and tender soul who must have made it his business to kiss the girls who would have otherwise graduated unkissed).

Ann Patchett

#5. I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

Alison Weir

#6. Coffee and chocolate - the inventor of mocha should be sainted.

Cherise Sinclair

#7. We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

Charlton Heston

#8. And there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.

George Gordon Byron

#9. It's enough to want to make even sainted sailors resort to salty language.

Samuel J. Biondo

#10. as if my father was a sainted human being, like he was up in Heaven getting fitted for his shiny halo and downy wings. The man was the biggest piece of shit I had ever met in my life. And

Jessica Gadziala

#11. Seriously." He turned me so I was facing him. "I'm not gonna lie. I want you. I want you so freaking bad that I'm pretty sure when I get to heaven I'm going to be sainted.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.

Ilana Mercer

#13. Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.

Nicholas Samstag

#14. Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

Karl Rove

#15. Somebody stop the world. I'm scared and I want to get off.

James Delano

#16. We eat for one reason: because we love the way food tastes. Flavor is the original craving.

Mark Schatzker

#17. I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

J.B. Priestley

#18. Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.

Andy Rooney

#20. 11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.
What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.

Ludwig Wittgenstein