Virgins Quotes - Page 20

• I'm a virgin. But this is an old shirt. --T-SHIRT

  Darynda Jones

  T Shirt, Shirts

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Holocaust, Use

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.171, Macmillan

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Life, Looks

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

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• To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".

  Robert Bellarmine

  Jesus, Science, Earth

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• This is the month, and this the happy morn,
  wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King,
  of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
  our great redemption from above did bring.

  John Milton

  Christmas, Mother, Kings

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been... a virgin.

  Peter Crouch

  Thinking, Footballer, Has Beens

  "'I'm available!' Peter Crouch offers to promote the return of FIFA Street in latest hilarious tweet" by Richard Innes, www.mirror.co.uk. August 22, 2017.

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• Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

  Francis of Assisi

  Father, Hands, Thrones

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• The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Simplicity, Rosary

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Mean, Names

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• Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, School, Mean

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

  Aleister Crowley

  Atheism, Pigeons, Method

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.

  John William Draper

  Mother, Children, Names

  John William Draper (1876). “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.151

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• I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

  E. L. James

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

  Richard Branson

  Heart, Games, Sweat

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• If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find their way to the Virgin Group, and when they do, we snap them up and try to keep them within the family.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, People, Trying

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• We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

  Richard Branson

  Successful, Views, Listening

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• Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.

  Richard Branson

  People, Together, Credit

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• Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

  Britney Spears

  Proud

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• Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel!

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Men, Heaven

  Charles Wesley (1889). “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”

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• That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Queens, Jobs, Powerful

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• Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Reality, Virginity, Reality Of Life

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• Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
  And cards and scandal are the chains,
  Where the pert virgin slights a name,
  And scorns to redden into shame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Reign, Scandal

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