Saint Quotes

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

I'm hardly a saint.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.