Nun Quotes - Page 7

• One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Catholic, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.80, Routledge

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• I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

  Anjelica Huston

  Couple, Father, Believe

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• I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

  Sofia Vergara

  Running, School, Catholic

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Trying, Speak, Warm

  "Tonys Actress Roundtable: 6 of Broadway's Leading Ladies on Losing Themselves in Characters, Avoiding Germs, Hating Cell Phones". Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Love, Husband

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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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• 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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• I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

  Foxy Brown

  Revealing

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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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• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

  Meg Tilly

  Friends, Character, Yarn

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

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• I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.

  Bobby Sager

  World, Afar, Helping

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• For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

  George A. Romero

  School, Kids, Guy

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