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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. -- Jeremy Taylor
That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person. -- Steven Morrissey
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. -- Mimi Rogers
Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate. -- Alex Gibney
And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left. -- Thomas Keneally
I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am. -- Paris Hilton
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests. -- Pope Francis
As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity. -- Bo Sanchez
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. -- Rajneesh
I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years. -- Hamza Yusuf
You're not celibate, then? I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes.No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate. -- E. L. James
I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche -- Richey Edwards
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. -- Robert Boyle
I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don't need a romance to complete a story about a woman -- Greta Gerwig
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate. -- Christopher Morley
The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home. -- Paul Leautaud
Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight. -- Frederick Lenz
No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character. -- George Harrison
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That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person. -- Steven Morrissey
Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position. -- Helen Fielding
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. -- Alan Ball
I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places I'm really no good to you. -- Jessicka
I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love. -- Andrew Solomon

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