Catechism Quote by Iain Banks Download Open image “I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.” — Iain Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catechism Eye Secret
His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
And then I got to my feet and stumbled toward the door again. And got halfway there before I realized I was naked. Of… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was on the school bus telling Richard Pryor jokes. I was sneaking, listening to Richard Pryor albums and would go to school the… — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I was little I'd put my arms in my shirt and told people I lost my arms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where… — Vash Young Copy Share Image
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
When I was little, I fell in the toilet and somebody had to come get me out. I was really embarrassed because I was… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just… — Iain Banks Copy Share
If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
