Nun Quotes - Page 7

• With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Effort, Brain

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Girl, Self Esteem, Differences

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

  Michael Novak

  Lying, War, Fall

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• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

  Mother Teresa

  Want, Way, Priests

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

  Quincy Jones

  Kids, Dope, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.

  Dennis Altman

  Practice, People, Majority

  Dennis Altman (1982). “The Homosexualization of America”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

  Nora Roberts

  Discipline, Guilt, Educated

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• You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  White, Buttocks

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.92, Penguin

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• The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.60, Bantam

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• I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.

  Paul Bettany

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Running, Growing Up, School

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• When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides of Christ. Christ is the bridegroom. In these symbolic actions, rather than in physical actions, where a male reaches sexuality or participates in intimate exchanges, if one uses a different term - there's often a heterosexual figuring that takes place. The male poet invokes a beautiful female muse. The virginal nun consecrated invokes the male bridegroom, Christ.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Beautiful, Males, Female

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

  George Harrison

  Grace, Needs, World

  Source: www.prabhupada-books.de

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• American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Women, Athlete, Order

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

  Dalai Lama

  Party, Order, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until we are hurt

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Hurt, Fun, Order

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• Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Growing Up, School, Catholic

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that's not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only dirty if it makes you want to have sex more. If it makes you feel sick, disgusted, ashamed of your own body, then it's not a dirty movie at all. It's a Catholic movie. And I make very Catholic movies.

  Kevin Smith

  Sex, Hate, Dirty

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• If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Religious, Devil, Looks

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.119, Delacorte Press

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• I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Believe, Joy

  Living My Life ch. 5 (1931).

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• The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Sea, Long

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Growing Up, School

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