#celibate

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#appreciate #celibate #i #might #sacrament

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

#celibate #had #his #instrument #maintain

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#because #celibate #clergy #especially #fanaticism

Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”… ↗

— Rowena Cherry

#knight-s-fork #rhett #romance #rowena-cherry #dating

It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#confidence #love #rake #love

You're not celibate, then?" I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes. "No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate. ↗

— E.L. James

#anastasia #anastasia-steele #celibate #christian #christian-grey

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

#am #been #celibate #i #i am

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

#celibate #consider #i #just #moment

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

#could #i #knew #left #manage

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

#apple #celibate #confined #dies #dwells