"Is America a land of God where saints……" — Sean O'Casey
"Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God."
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39 Quotes by Sean O'Casey
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire;…
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
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Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary,…
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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of…
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from…
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a…
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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into…
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner…
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold,…
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
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You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an…
— Joe Biden
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
— Jo Brand
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
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If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily…
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People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a…
— Bob Goodlatte
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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