Top 100 St Quotes

#1. You accomplish victory <strong>ststrong>ep by <strong>ststrong>ep, not by leaps and bounds.

Lyn St. James

#2. He was ju<strong>ststrong> one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

Edward St. Aubyn

#3. Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
Beset with every ill but that of fear.
The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
They swarm around thee, and thou <strong>ststrong>and'<strong>ststrong> at bay.

William Cowper

#4. No problem. Fir<strong>ststrong> one's free.

Lili St. Crow

#5. He was so close it was hard to breathe. It was exactly like being next to an oven baking a really spicy apple pie.

Lili St. Crow

#6. The ultimate moment where I mo<strong>ststrong> felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arre<strong>ststrong> anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out again<strong>ststrong> the government.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a deva<strong>ststrong>atingly good-looking Roman Catholic prie<strong>ststrong> who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime again<strong>ststrong> the human gene pool.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#8. But I don't want to ju<strong>ststrong> believe it, I want it to be true.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Bapti<strong>ststrong> Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

Robert Glasper

#10. On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

William Bligh

#11. St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

John Dyer

#12. It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART

K. Farrell St. Germain

#13. Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as mo<strong>ststrong> people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Lara St. John

#14. THE MAGICIAN
They asked St. Germain's manservant if his ma<strong>ststrong>er was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumored he had claimed.

'How would I know?" the man replied. "I have only been in the ma<strong>ststrong>er's employ for three hundred years.

Neil Gaiman

#15. O Autumn, laden with fruit, and <strong>ststrong>ained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'<strong>ststrong> re<strong>ststrong>, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lu<strong>ststrong>y song of fruit and flowers.

William Blake

#16. AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the be<strong>ststrong> and the wor<strong>ststrong> in people.

Niki De St. Phalle

#17. The Irish tell the <strong>ststrong>ory of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, ju<strong>ststrong> show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?

Martin Sheen

#18. O Lazy bones! Do<strong>ststrong> thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'<strong>ststrong> use them?

Benjamin Franklin

#19. Obedience shows whether you are grateful.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#20. I've talked to Bruce about it. He'll have kittens, and Hiro will have penguins, and Augu<strong>ststrong> will completely throw a fit, but I've made up my mind. It's up to you

Lili St. Crow

#21. Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

St. Jerome

#22. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#23. I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.

Rebecca St. James

#24. On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#25. Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.

Charlotte Bronte

#26. They please the world mo<strong>ststrong>, who please Chri<strong>ststrong> lea<strong>ststrong>.

St. Jerome

#27. What idiot told you the law was concerned with morality?

V. St. Clair

#28. As St. Fau<strong>ststrong>ina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the ju<strong>ststrong> one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).

Vinny Flynn

#29. But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#30. The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.

Seamus Heaney

#31. There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.

Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke

#32. For love, thou know'<strong>ststrong>, is full of jealousy

William Shakespeare

#33. he's got a terrible marriage and doesn't want to go home, and don't ask how I know that, everyone knows when you've got a terrible marriage, it's like having bad breath, you get close enough to a person and it's obvious.

Emily St. John Mandel

#34. Mo<strong>ststrong> people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.

Niki De St. Phalle

#35. Grant us safe lodging, and holy re<strong>ststrong>," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at la<strong>ststrong>." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and <strong>ststrong>ill had a long way to go.

John Irving

#36. Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

St. Jerome

#37. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calme<strong>ststrong> and lea<strong>ststrong> cluttered part of her life.

Emily St. John Mandel

#38. Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

St. Jerome

#39. There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life with a negative mind.

K. Farrell St. Germain

#40. God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou ha<strong>ststrong> wanderings in the wilderness
And find'<strong>ststrong> not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

James Russell Lowell

#41. I felt his gaze, I heard his moan,
And knew his hunger as my own.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#42. Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing with people who believed what they saw on television.

Edward St. Aubyn

#43. So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

St. Jerome

#44. Ju<strong>ststrong> before the top of the hill she <strong>ststrong>opped, breathed deeply, and tried to mu<strong>ststrong>er her scattered sense of calm, like a bride checking her veil in the la<strong>ststrong> mirror before the aisle.

Edward St. Aubyn

#45. I think I was ju<strong>ststrong> too young to even under<strong>ststrong>and what was going on. When I was <strong>ststrong>ill living in South Africa, there was <strong>ststrong>ill so much racial tension.

St. Lucia

#46. Simeon Potter notes that when James II fir<strong>ststrong> saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

Bill Bryson

#47. Another big ripping sound. Jesus. Had they brought supernatural dynamite in to tear the whole place apart?

Lili St. Crow

#48. Why should I run all the way down to 17th St. to buy dirty, badly made books whenI can buy clean, beautiful ones
from you without leaving the typewriter? From whereI sit,London's a lot closer than 17th Street.

Helene Hanff

#49. The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#50. If thou would'<strong>ststrong> have that <strong>ststrong>ream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'<strong>ststrong> not leave it to become a <strong>ststrong>agnant pond.

H. P. Blavatsky

#51. It all <strong>ststrong>arted in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

Evan Peters

#52. The hate directed again<strong>ststrong> the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the Ea<strong>ststrong> St. Louis race riot.

Josephine Baker

#53. I couldn't tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one of those infinitesimally small lights was him. I wondered if he'd look up and see the planes crossing the sky like shooting <strong>ststrong>ars, knowing one of those lights was me.

Leah Raeder

#54. In my rather brief medical practice,' said David mode<strong>ststrong>ly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.

Edward St. Aubyn

#55. When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

David Blunkett

#56. The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwith<strong>ststrong>anding the total difference between them in the <strong>ststrong>yle of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#57. One who knows more, loves more.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#58. I'm going to draw whoever it is off so you can go back to the dorms and fuck yourselves.

Lili St. Crow

#59. We are ju<strong>ststrong>ified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

#60. She watched his gaze flicker over her suit, her gleaming shoes, and realized he was performing the same reconciliations she was, adju<strong>ststrong>ing a mental image of a long-ago spouse to match the changed person sitting before him.

Emily St. John Mandel

#61. J..es ... u..s fu ... ck..in.g Ch..ri ... <strong>ststrong> Liam! The bed slammed again<strong>ststrong> the wall.

J.J. McAvoy

#62. It's OK to get butterfly in your <strong>ststrong>omach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

Georges St-Pierre

#63. No one cares to speak to an unwilling li<strong>ststrong>ener. An arrow never lodges in a <strong>ststrong>one: often it recoils upon the sender of it.

St. Jerome

#64. The sun that warmed our <strong>ststrong>ooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted-
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#65. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Georges St-Pierre

#66. The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

St. John Climacuslimacus

#67. The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#68. But, love, hate on; for now I know thy mind.
Those that can see, thou lov'<strong>ststrong>; and I am blind.

William Shakespeare

#69. Mullets are <strong>ststrong>ill going <strong>ststrong>rong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

Trevor Dunn

#70. But the roaring of the fire,
And the warmth of fur,
And the boiling of the kettle
Were beautiful to her!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#71. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are ju<strong>ststrong> bumps in the road, ob<strong>ststrong>acles to be overcome and made <strong>ststrong>epping <strong>ststrong>ones into a long successful life.

Teresa St. Frances

#72. Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith ju<strong>ststrong>ifies' and 'faith does not ju<strong>ststrong>ify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

Martin Luther

#73. The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Edward St. Aubyn

#74. Tease hair, not homos!

James St. James

#75. The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

Abbe Pierre

#76. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

St. Jerome

#77. Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

St. Jerome

#78. The 'crownd' is <strong>ststrong>ill the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon.

Richard Jefferies

#79. I like to play dirty. I can also be very, very exacting." Rate St. Seba<strong>ststrong>ian.

Samanthe Beck

#80. I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

Joel Murray

#81. It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#82. When I was in high school in St. Louis my be<strong>ststrong> friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Mary Frann

#83. For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augu<strong>ststrong>ine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

Katha Pollitt

#84. Special Assi<strong>ststrong>ant Agent in Charge
Lang."
He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again.
"Ju<strong>ststrong> 'Mr Lang' is fine.

Roxanne St. Claire

#85. I really feel that my life <strong>ststrong>ory is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Friedrich St. Florian

#86. A soul cannot live without loving. It mu<strong>ststrong> have something to love, for it was created to love.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#87. I do identify with St. Patrick, not ju<strong>ststrong> in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.

Deval Patrick

#88. Kenzie approached sheepishly, one half of the broken rattan in her hand. "Sorry," she said, holding up the ruined weapon with a helpless ge<strong>ststrong>ure. "It ... uh ... died a noble death. I can only hope it gave that thing a wicked tongue splinter.

Julie Kagawa

#89. Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#90. My fir<strong>ststrong> tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I ju<strong>ststrong> walked in in a frenzy. It's <strong>ststrong>ill there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#91. Stick to musicians. I think we're generally saner.

Emily St. John Mandel

#92. If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life

St. Germain

#93. The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it.

Peter St. John

#94. The <strong>ststrong>illness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the di<strong>ststrong>ance.

Emily St. John Mandel

#95. In the Catholic Worker we mu<strong>ststrong> try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

Peter Maurin

#96. When did mo<strong>ststrong> of us <strong>ststrong>op being poets?

Michael St. George

#97. Gasping, St. Vincent lifted his head to <strong>ststrong>are at her as if she were a variety of creature he had never seen before. "Good Lord," he whispered, his expression not one of gratification, but of something close to alarm.

Lisa Kleypas

#98. Well, now, look at you, is that a halo? Did you get canonized while I wasn't looking? Am I addressing St. Stefan now?

L.J.Smith

#99. As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a <strong>ststrong>yli<strong>ststrong> his name is quite obscure--and as an uphol<strong>ststrong>erer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#100. You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal.

Julie Kagawa

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