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the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful. — Frederic Bastiat

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot

Without temptation, there was no virtue in resistance. — Cherie Priest

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. — Arthur Middleton

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think. — Priest Holmes

Faith is a viewpoint? That sounds strange coming from the lips of a priest. — James Targett

What do you put in that coffee? Two teaspoons of bitch powder? — Zathyn Priest

He hadn't found what he'd meant to find, but his need to swipe and hoard something had been appeased for now. — Cherie Priest

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola

The first mover is the mind.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun — Joseph J. Bailey

I've got a woman. A crazy woman." "Sounds like the start of a country song to me," I said. — Cherie Priest

An artist is one of two things: he is either a high priest, or a more or less smart entertainer. - GIUSEPPE MAZZINI — Leo Tolstoy

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

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling. — Jean Genet

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass. — Saint Augustine

The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at? — Stabley Victor Paskavich

Tell me, priest,' I ordered, 'or I'll cut you open right here, and your followers can try to pray you back together. — Leigh Bardugo

A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. — Victor Hugo

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before. — Elizabeth Berg

My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss. — Priest Holmes

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

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

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

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

In the end, only the truth will survive. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that. — Nancy Grace

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

God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor. — Eve

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. — Malcolm Muggeridge

My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest. — Luis Alberto Urrea

This is the shade of difference: the door
of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. — Victor Hugo

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

If you aren't breaking tackles, you aren't doing anything. — Priest Holmes

Thinking of love in terms of romance is like thinking of God in terms of a priest. — Silvia Hartmann

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

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

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

If she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest — Victor Hugo

You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls ... — John Geddes

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

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil! — Carrie Nation

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

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day. — Cheech Marin

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

Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?"
Xedrix-"Call a priest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. — John O'Donohue

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I may speak freely, my lord," began Tuck. "I doubt anything in heaven or earth could prevent you," remarked Bran. "Speak, priest. — Stephen R. Lawhead

When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting."
Cate Harlow, PI — Kristen Houghton

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams

At one time, we all were Gods. — Bjorn Street

An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone. — Toni Morrison

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

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. — DeWitt Clinton

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce

Sometimes it is the book that opens you. - Robertpriest — Robert Priest

Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their — David Nicholls

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

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake

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

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head
I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread — Sean Price

People first become friends, and then they love each other. — Priest Nicolae Tanase

I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie. — Steven Bauer

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

Faith asks no signal from the skies, To show that prayers accepted rise, Our Priest is in His holy place, And answers from the throne of grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. — Max Eastman

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. — John Hillaby

Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs. — Shusaku Endo

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

And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest. — Sara Teasdale

Tanith immediately told them that Valkyrie had beaten up a priest and an old woman. — Derek Landy

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

You were a priest. Of all people, you understand forgiveness." Something — Skye Warren

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar. — Rafael Benitez

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H.G.Wells

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

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

Oh, well. Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said to the vestal virgin. — Terry Pratchett

I've never doubted my ability. — Priest Holmes

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

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey. — Henri Nouwen

I can't tell by looking in your eyes whether you're a priest or a crook. — Frank Perdue

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