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I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again. — S. Jae-Jones

But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint. — Peter Kreeft

You're not a saint. You're a demon. Own up to it. — Julie Kagawa

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity. — Saint Augustine

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I am a Count, Not a Saint. — Alexandre Dumas

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature. — Saint John Chrysostom

Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!"
"Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites. — David James Duncan

Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love can be angry ... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. — Saint Augustine

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek. — Edith Hamilton

The girl forgives you, not because shehas become a saint but because she can no longer bear to carry this burden of hatred. Hating is very wearisome. — Paulo Coelho

My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed. — Saint Francis De Sales

Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it. — Sarah Dessen

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. — Indira Gandhi

I'm an angel not a frickin' saint. — J.R. Ward

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

On Gandhi: Don't ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground. — Shashi Tharoor

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. — Truman Capote

When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not? — Saint Basil

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. — Pope Francis

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

My father was a saint, I'm not. — Indira Gandhi

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration. — Swami Vivekananda

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress — Taylor Swift

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. — Peter Kreeft

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. — Albert Camus

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others. — John Calipari

I'm not such a saint as all that," Rohyr demurred. "But I don't care to descend into the gutters with him. It's already crowded enough down there. — Eresse

You're not a man, you're a mushroom! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. — Saint Francis De Sales

A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives. — Saint Augustine

Let us not overlook so great a gain. — Saint John Chrysostom

Perhaps one day I'd be made a saint - the patron saint of fools and lovers, if those terms were not exactly the same. — Rachel Caine

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted. — Philip Zaleski

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

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house. — Katharine Tynan

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. — Saint Augustine

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues. — Ogden Nash

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ? — Saint Augustine

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God. — Lauren F. Winner

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. — Brennan Manning

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others. — Saint John Chrysostom

The man who reproaches you is unfair;
You're a woman and not a saint. — Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness — Bangambiki Habyarimana

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. — Saint Augustine

Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not. — Philippa Gregory

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue. — Saint John Chrysostom

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. — Teresa Of Avila

Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint. — Zach Braff

No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. We smile a last smile, and I walk away. I feel her watching me, but I don't look back. — Markus Zusak

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint. — Charles Peguy

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. — Ann Landers

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us. — St. Anthony The Great

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint. — Albert Schweitzer

If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. — Aldous Huxley

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. — Martin Of Tours

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

She would drive a saint to murder. Like, ten-stab-wounds-to-the-torso murder." "Good thing you're not a saint. — Alexandra Bracken

It is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint. — Eugenia Price

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint. — Leonora Carrington

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ... — Peter Kreeft

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

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him. — Oswald Chambers

I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint. — Bill Burr

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting. — Bernadette Devlin

You will not become a saint through other people's sins. — Anton Chekhov

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. — Saint John Chrysostom

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin. — Saint John Chrysostom

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven. — Ralph Abernathy

It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint. — John Ortberg

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. — Saint Basil

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. — Leon Bloy

A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? — Saint Francis De Sales

I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating. — Paulo Coelho

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace ... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off. — Dallas Willard

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves? — Umberto Eco

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. — Saint Ignatius

A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery