Saint Bridget Quotes & Sayings

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. — Frank Black

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels. — Bridget Of Sweden

Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? — Richard S. Ewell

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. — Abraham Lincoln

Yet another gratuitous cruelty: the killer targets the most innocent, the people who would never steal food, lie, cheat, break the law, or betray a friend. It was a phenomenon that the Italian writer Primo Levi identified after emerging from Auschwitz, when he wrote that he and his fellow survivors never wanted to see one another again after the war because they had all done something of which they were ashamed. — Barbara Demick

What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul? — Bette Lord

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business. — Christina Aguilera

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be. — Joe Mauer

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. — Julia Child

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful. — Jahangir Khan

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant. — Robin Lee Hatcher

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.' — Elizabeth Wurtzel

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past. — John Rucyahana

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. — Theodore Roethke