Nun Quotes - Page 9

• I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns.

  Rachel Cohn

  Kindness, War, Kissing

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• Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Holiday, Night, Two

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• Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Blessed, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

  Nancy Farmer

  Dog, Horse, Believe

  Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

  Alice Walker

  Art, Sight, Color

  Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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• From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

  Thandie Newton

  Running, Atheist, School

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• I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

  Cheryl Ladd

  Angel, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  Patricia Heaton

  Christian, Kindness, Trying

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• As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Believe, Men

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

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• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cells, Two Sides, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

  Darynda Jones

  Waiting, Poverty, Bumper Sticker

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.904, St. Martin's Press

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• A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Character, Years

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• Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Kings, Writing

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• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Suitable

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• I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Thinking, Years

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• The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun!

  Ally Carter

  Knows

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• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

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• If you become a Nun, dear,
  The bishop Love will be;
  The Cupids every one, dear!
  Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

  Leigh Hunt

  Life, Bishops, Cupid

  Leigh Hunt (1923). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt”

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• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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• I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

  Liam Gallagher

  Heaven, Devil, Gears

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• I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

  JWoww

  Catholic

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