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• Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane. "Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?" "Is that supposed to be a proposal?

  Christine Feehan

  Names, Use, Lasts

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Ruthless Game”, p.108, Penguin

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• Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?' 'A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to be a Saint Bernard.' 'Excuse me?' Nicodemus said. I mimed covering one of Mouse's ears with my hand and stage-whispered, 'Don't tell him that they don't actually carry kegs of booze on their collars. Break his little heart.

  Jim Butcher

  Heart, Hands, Snow

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• God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

  Georgette Heyer

  Men, Thinking, God Knows

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• 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

  Doe, Usefulness

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.496, Discovery House

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• The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

  Dr. Seuss

  Book, May, Tongue

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• He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

  Ann Aguirre

  People, Gutters, Palaces

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.177, Penguin

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• Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sea, Agony, Soul

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 4

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• She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Doctors, Engineers, Felt

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

  Sarah Dessen

  Powerful, Opportunity, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.23, Penguin

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• Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

  Henry Miller

  Teacher, Hero, Heart

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Games, England

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31

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• He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

  Simone Elkeles

  Eyelashes, Clue, Considering

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

  Jessica Day George

  Father, Army, Men

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

  Craig Clevenger

  Angel, Men, Whales

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria: A Novel”, Macadam Cage Pub

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• To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

  Victor Hugo

  Sin, Commit, Exception

  Victor Hugo (2014). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.

  Julie Garwood

  Letting Go, Mother, Swear To God

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.

  George Q. Cannon

  Children, Blessing, Men

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• When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Lds, Church

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• As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

  Susan Cain

  Party, Boys, Long

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• I knew what Saint Dane was sensing. I knew why he was confused. he thought I was done. He thought we were done. He was wrong, and that's what he was sensing. He felt our presence. I figured I might as well confirm things for him. "Pendragon, don't--," Patrick warned. I stepped out fron behind the pillar into the light. "Man, that suit is just wicked cool!" I called out.

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, Men, Light

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Giving, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.39, Scholastic UK

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• If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, Long Ago, Done

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Atheist, Culture, Relics

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della

  C.C. Hunter

  Quacks, Walks

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• There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Son, Italian, Winning

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