"In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god."

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Anne Rice

#Saint Quotes #Chapel Quotes

“I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.”
“Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”
“The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.”

Source : Slavoj Žižek (2014). “Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism”, p.170, Penguin UK
“I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.”
“Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.”
“The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who anxiously desire to come to dwell here in this mortal state. All the honor and glory that can come to men and women is but a dim thing whose luster shall fade in comparison to the high honor, the eternal glory, the ever-enduring happiness that shall come to the woman who fulfils the first great duty and mission that devolves upon her to become the mother of the sons and daughters of God”
“Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.65, Bantam
“Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.”

Source : "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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