Quotes with catholic

  • Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Carl E. Olson Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • Carl E. Olson Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Erica Jong Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Simone Weil I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • John F. Kennedy I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Anne Rice I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Bruno Dumont I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Muriel Spark If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Arthur Peacocke In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • George Orwell One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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