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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.

English Proverb

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nelson Mandela

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

John Vinocur

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

They're definitely one of the better teams in the conference. They are year in and year out, but that's not to say that we can't compete with them. Last year's match [that Saint Mary's lost 5-4] could have gone either way, and it will probably be a similar match this year.

Dee Stevenson

I took the decision not to turn around to protect the lives of the 1,800 passengers on board the Saint Catherine.

Salah Jomaa

Brad Campbell is a wonderful person who wants to do right for the environment. If that was all, then we would make Brad a saint. But Brad is also very politically ambitious, very personally ambitious. And he made mistakes.

Jim Sinclair

It was a glowing e-mail. She said how lucky Saint Mary's was to have me as a coach.

Steve Bender

I don't know that there was any concerted effort to drop saint. Typically the way this goes is that the simplest name sticks.

Chris Waythomas

I think we are a better team than Saint David. I also think that because of the emotion from the Clifton game we weren't as ready at the beginning to play as we could've been, but we played a good game.

Kalem Norton

If we can find them, we will pick them up and bring them back to the University of Saint Mary.

Sister Diane Steele

I pray thee leave, love me no more, / Call home the heart you gave me, / I but in vain the saint adore, / That can, but will not, save me.

Michael Drayton

You might think they are going to (the University of Maryland) College Park and they end up at Mount Saint Mary's or Harvard.

Gary Walden

That (Saint Mary's) was a tough game for us, on the road and a hostile environment. I think I really grew from that game. I kept my composure and we executed down the stretch.

Anthony Farmer

That's the moment that made him a saint in Latin America. Everything he did and said before and after that is crystallized in that moment, the point where he's finally got the world stage.

David Maraniss

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Terrie G. Spiro

We won a game once and we ran 18. We lost a game against Saint Pete Catholic and we ran two.

Mick Koczersut

Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Ambrose Bierce

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's not a comedian who's interested in hurting people. He's just one of the good guys -- he always has been.... He's not a saint, he's not Mr. Perfect, but he's a very, very decent guy.

Tom Stern

It's kind of like a Saint Louis reunion of my class. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Joe Lobendahn

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

Jane Howard

We really want to get rid of the stereotypes between the Notre Dame women and the Saint Mary's women. I haven't experienced [the tension] myself but some girls said they did, especially at Domerfest.

Jennifer Gray

Another way we find out is people ratting each other out, Why do I have to be registered when Saint such-and-such isn't?

Stan Shivell

Obviously, we don't like the program. There's nothing about the program to like if you're an active Latter-day Saint.

Mike Otterson

Saint Frances of Hollywood.

Frances Farmer

She wasn't a saint, just incredibly optimistic and positive, ... She was able to put one foot in front of the other. She had a lot to do.

Julianne Moore

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

Michael Drayton

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Marguerite Young

One of the reasons Abraham is an important figure in the world today is because he is not a saint.

Bruce Feiler

Ah, pierce me 100 times with your needles fine and I will thank you 100 times, Saint Morphine, you who Aeseulapus has made a God.

Jules Verne

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Albert Schweitzer

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls 'grace' from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call 'rigtheousness.'

Victor Hugo

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Dorothy Day

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

Dom Helder Camara

I give all the credit to Saint Louis. They did a great job contesting our shots and being real physical.

Stanley Burrell

St. Anthony is my patron saint. That's who my son was named after. We went into St. Anthony's Chapel and prayed for his help in finding Anthony.

Carmen Proviano

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

Michael Douglas

I know how to do this. I'm fine. I've got food until Christmas. I've got water until Carnival. You can tell everybody's that out there that's from News Orleans, that I've got my spot for the Bacchus parade right here on Saint Charles Avenue. I'm all ready, and I expect them back.

Bob Rue

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

Not to be a martyr, I have an extremely talented team. I can't get them to play at a higher level. Either I need to get them to play better or they need to find someone else. Not to take anything away from Kamehameha, and I'm not mad at our kids. We have to regroup and face a tough Saint Louis team tomorrow.

Greg Tacon

Someone somewhere let something go, and this man pays for it with his life. Justice works better for some people than others. He was by no means a saint, but he definitely takes the bullet.

Rob Dalton

Time is money. Yves Saint Laurent is eating up a quarter of Gucci's profits. How long can they afford that?

Carlo Pambianco

South Florida is a better team (than Saint Leo), and it was a lot easier to get off to a good start.

Trent Hagan

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

Thomas Campion

What we focused on was doing a deal, taking the emotion out of the deal and looking at what was best for our hospital, for Saint Thomas, for the patients that are served by the area and for the employees.

Mark Gorman

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

Victor Hugo

Saint Martin's knows that the only way they can win is to play as hard as they can and they did that tonight. My hats off to them, because they took us out of everything we wanted to do.

Frank Ostanik

By inference, competitive opposition to other developers' projects will be contested in far more sophisticated ways in the future. If all politics is local, the Saint Index confirms that all land use has become political. It has become an adversarial system being played out. Traditionally business-oriented political leaders may no longer automatically favor all development projects.

Patrick Fox

Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.

Valerie Hudson

We wanted very specifically to meet the needs of the people of Bay Saint Louis, not what we thought they might need.

Robert Boone

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this.

Michael Mccord

Give credit to Saint Joseph's for running its offense so well in the second half. I wouldn't say (our players) ran out of gas; I think it's more accurate to say we weren't able to sustain our intensity.

John Giannini

The rapid restructuring of Yves Saint Laurent has laid the foundation for profitable future growth.

Domenico De Sole

I am pleased that when confronted with the overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing, Richard Saint Angel has chosen to withdraw his petition.

Patricia Myers

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

David Johansen

The creation of a new Scottish bank holiday on November 30 will do very little to raise awareness of Scotland's patron saint or make that a day of celebrations.

The Committee

The Spanish colonial period, through the 19th century and even into the early 20th century, was an era of very public religiosity. People wanted to show an image of a saint to whom they were devoted. Religion was public.

Martha J. Egan

My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the planet, the nearest to a saint.

Michael Flatley

We know this is a big win. For us it was a big game. Saint Martin's really took it to us up there.

Joddie Gleason

Mount Saint John is a good place. It brought me and my son back together.

Lillian Williams

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

George Orwell

I gave them a story about how the mustang and the saint were friends — just like Cedar Grove and us. But when the Saint passed away, the mustang had to give the eulogy. Nobody knew how the saint died except the mustang. The mustang was the only one who really knew how the saint died.

Roderick Moore

Our team let penalties and turnovers get to us a little bit. We had a couple drive killers with turnovers and we had a couple foolish penalties and you can't do things like that and beat a fine team like Saint Louis on the road.

Ryan Bishop

If you beat Saint Louis three times in one year, then you got to be coach of the year.

Dean Nakagawa

What we lack in Prophets, however, we make up for in Saints. Only a Pope may canonize a Saint, but every man, woman and child on this planet is a genuine and authorized Pope (genuine and authorized by the House of the Apostles of Eris). So you can ordain yourself - and anyone or anything else - a Saint.

Kerry Thornley

I thought Chet's movement was particularly impressive, considering how well Saint Louis guards you.

Phil Martelli

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Georges Bataille

I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserable and unhappy, because he would not think he was worthy.

Malachy Mccourt

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Sue Brush

I guess you always think you're going to be a Division I athlete, but I wouldn't change anything at this point. Saint Xavier just seems right for me. I'm going to a successful program with a great coach. It's good to get this decision behind me.

Erin Hannemann

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.

Elizabeth Kenny