Pope John Paul II Quotes
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.Pope John Paul II
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Hamilton Jordan -
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
Samuel P. Huntington -
When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
Damien Chazelle -
That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.
Malik Jackson -
I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
Harriet Walter -
In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
Samuel Barnett
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Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Daniel Barenboim -
There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.
Gary Owen -
I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
Idris Elba -
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
Carl Hagelin -
China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
Wang Jianlin
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The highest expression of all morality is: Be!
Otto Weininger -
It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.
Colin Wilson -
Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
John Adams -
'But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding.'
Marc Bloch -
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.
Cormac McCarthy -
I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.
Craig Ferguson
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As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.
David Harewood -
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
Paul Newman -
I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
Victoria Pendleton -
Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.
Chris Squire Cinema -
When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.
Marcus Sakey -
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II