Sandoz Quotes

#1. It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

Mary Doria Russell

#2. And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.

Mary Doria Russell

#3. On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.

Mary Doria Russell

#4. Your sorrow is of no interest to me," Sandoz said softly. "If you want absolution, go to a priest.

Mary Doria Russell

#5. We need the life ... We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

Thomm Quackenbush

#6. I fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.

Arj Barker

#7. The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Peter Lynch

#8. Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives ... May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge ... May you open your wings and fly!

Miranda Kerr

#9. The thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Billy Graham

#10. I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Harvey Fierstein

#11. The dirigible came to rest as lightly as a butterfly on an egg, if the butterfly were to stumble a bit and list heavily to one side and the egg to take on the peculiar characteristics of Scotland in winter: more soggy and more gray than one would think possible.

Gail Carriger

#12. Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.

Adolf Hitler

#13. There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.

Mari Sandoz

#14. Writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.

Mari Sandoz

#15. Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

Francois Viete

#16. Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan!

Walt Whitman

#17. Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

John R. Pierce

#18. The hills of one's youth are all mountains

Mari Sandoz

#19. We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

Abdoulaye Wade

#20. But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.

Virginia Woolf

#21. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.

Josh Kaufman

#22. People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Ned Vizzini