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The woman could get a confession faster than a priest.
— B. J. Daniels
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
— Arthur Middleton
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines.
— Alan Furst
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.
— Glenn Tipton
I've got a woman. A crazy woman." "Sounds like the start of a country song to me," I said.
— Cherie Priest
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
— Peter Jurasik
An artist is one of two things: he is either a high priest, or a more or less smart entertainer. - GIUSEPPE MAZZINI
— Leo Tolstoy
I met his eyes because I could not refuse them ... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun.
— Cherie Priest
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
— Ryan Stiles
But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If
— Brandon Sanderson
I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.
— Matthew Yglesias
The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at?
— Stabley Victor Paskavich
When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But
— Cherie Priest
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
— John Polkinghorne
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
— Gustave Flaubert
The bishop is a lot like me ... just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you.
— Priest Holmes
No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
— Victor Hugo
Don't trust any man who surrounds himself with beautiful women. Least of all a priest.
— Brian McClellan
I'm looking for a monophysite priest to marry our maid.
— Eugene Ionesco
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.
We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman. — Cherie Priest
We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman. — Cherie Priest
A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands.
— Mary E. Pearson
God and His Priest and King, ... make up a heaven of our misery.
— William Blake
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)
— Sybil MacBeth
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
— William Osler
I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine ...
— John Geddes
I think I came here as a priest ... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.
— Samuel Bowers
Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
— Henri Nouwen
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
— Paul Claudel
My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks
— Ellen Hopkins
Palatable. Easier to overlook. Forgotten, or at least smoothed into some pearl-like blandness, if not a thing of beauty.
— Cherie Priest
A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base.
— Christopher Priest
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
— Wyclef Jean
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
— John Chrysostom
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
— Wyclef Jean
The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.
— Geraldine Brooks
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
— James Martineau
Someone else's phone rang twice, and was answered by a scowl I could hear all the way over on my end of the line.
— Cherie Priest
Thinking of love in terms of romance is like thinking of God in terms of a priest.
— Silvia Hartmann
I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid ...
— Dana Gould
a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power.
— Cherie Priest
My mother has an absolute passion for sour fruit and can strip a gooseberry bush quicker than a priest can strip a choirboy.
— Stephen Fry
Raylene- Actually ... I have an idea.
Adrian- Oh no.
R- No, it's a *good* idea.
A- I don't believe you. — Cherie Priest
Adrian- Oh no.
R- No, it's a *good* idea.
A- I don't believe you. — Cherie Priest
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.
— Walter Matthau
Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.
— Cherie Priest
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter ... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.
— James Joyce
Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
— Phil Donahue
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
— Rodger Kamenetz
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
— Carrie Nation
Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.
— Rafael Benitez
I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest.
— Robin Sacredfire
To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
— Rachel Held Evans
I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.
— Jacques Myard
True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green.
— Dante Alighieri
Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs.
— Shusaku Endo
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
— Aristotle Onassis
I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.
— Dan Savage
I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.
— Sophia Amoruso
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
— George R R Martin
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
— James Joyce
At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
— Dan Simmons
A fool will always find banana skins
— Robert Priest
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
— Cheech Marin
An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.
— Toni Morrison
People talked more openly to a psychiatrist than they did to a priest because a doctor couldn't threaten them with Hell.
— Paulo Coelho
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
— Graham Greene
My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.
— L.M. Montgomery
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
— Max Eastman
Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator)
— Leonard Holton
The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.
— John O'Donohue
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?"
Xedrix-"Call a priest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Xedrix-"Call a priest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, THOU ART A PRIEST FOR EVER after the order of Melchizedek" (Psalm 110:4).
— David Alsobrook
And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep:
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.
— John Hillaby
I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.
— Graham Greene
Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.
— Cherie Priest