Pope John Paul II Quotes

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Pope John Paul II

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• At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Thought

• I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Band
  • Always
  • Boy

• Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Work
  • Why
  • Yourself

• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • More
  • Appreciate
  • Younger

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Dark
  • Movies
  • Old

• There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Child
  • Left
  • Within

• I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Go

• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Existence
  • Possible

• So on and onwe walked without thinking of restpassing craters, passing fire,under the rocking sky of '41tottering crazy on its smoking columns.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Fire

• He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Song
  • Rest
  • Sunday

• It's documented in The Book, somewhere...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Book

• Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

  

  Eleanora Fagan

• Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Freedom

• They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.

  

  Clifford D. Simak

• Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work

• When I'm wearing red lipstick, I'll never do anything with my eyes. And it's so easy - you just put on red lipstick, and your whole face just seems done.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Done
  • Eyes
  • Red

• I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

  

  James Garner
  • World
  • High
  • Success

• The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Jesus

• Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

  

  Plutarch
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

  

  Pope John Paul II