I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears… — John Fante Copy Share Image
You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense… — Bobby Sager Copy Share Image
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You do like them thin, don't you?" Pyrlig said, amused. "Now I like them meaty as well-fed heifers! Give me a nice… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
Honestly, I am here to be an actress, not a social worker or a nun. — Mallika Sherawat Copy Share Image
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
