Quotes with virgin

  • What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
  • I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Arnold Bennett Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • William Blake Every harlot was a virgin once.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Sigmund Freud I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Beck I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
    Spin magazine, December 1999
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • David Jenkins I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
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  • Margaret Atwood If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • James Joyce Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bernard Berenson Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • A. J. McLean No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Bette Midler The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
    From her album Mud will be Flung Tonight
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • John Milton 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
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Burt Rutan Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Anne Rice What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Harry F. Banks Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
    Harry F. Banks
    American producer (1896 - 1915)
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  • Simone Weil The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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