A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest. — Broderick Crawford Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Sworn to avenge Condemn to Hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel” — Tipton Glenn Raymond Halford Rob Downing Kenneth Copy Share Image
“No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We're not a band that takes any kind of political stance. That's not what we're about as Priest. But we're observers of… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I did the good priest and the bad and felt that I am getting stereotyped in priest roles. I am not picking… — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The priest is immense because he makes others believe in a heap of weird things. The Church wanting to do everything and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am a teller of stories. I have lived as a priest, a prince, and a peasant. I have… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
“I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“What is a priest doing being a doctor geology?" said Du Pre. Father Van Den Heuvel turned back from his diggings. "The… — Nails Peter Bowen Copy Share Image
“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“The Church's obsession with sexual restrictions is and always has been wrong wrong wrong. Wrong to be contemptuous of naïve young women… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
“Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Under his buckskin riding-coat he wore a black vest and the cravat and collar of a churchman. A young priest, at his… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Power comes at a price, love," Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
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