Zitat des Tages über Heilige / Saint:
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.
During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.
I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
No man can become a saint in his sleep.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
I'm far from a saint.
I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.
Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.
From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.