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
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• 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
  • Country
  • Society
  • Culture

• 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
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Party
  • Win

• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• 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
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Jews

• 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
  • Powerful
  • Army
  • Psychology

• 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
  • People
  • Done
  • Black

• I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Great
  • American
  • Competition

• I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Real
  • Achievement
  • London

• 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
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• 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
  • Love
  • Play
  • Summer

• China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • China
  • Cultural
  • Pillar

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• The highest expression of all morality is: Be!

  

  Otto Weininger

• But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Women
  • Justice
  • Environment

• Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Learning
  • Grandma

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.

  

  John Conyers
  • American
  • America
  • War

• I just want to help people become winners. That's what I'm about. I'm about winning.

  

  Avery Johnson
  • Help
  • Winning
  • About

• Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

  

  Pope John Paul II