Pope John Paul II Quotes

War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • May
  • Door

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Time
  • Choose
  • Just

• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  

  Kajol
  • Mother
  • Dying
  • Gift

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • You

• I come from a pretty strange family.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Strange

• Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Firsts
  • Loss

• War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • People
  • War
  • Focus

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • Family
  • War

• The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and know when I go back to the front line that the war will sink down, be drowned utterly in the great home-coming tide, know that it will then be past for ever, and not gnaw us continually, that it will have none but an outward power over us...Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. And at the same time I fear to importune it too much, because I do not know what might happen then. I am a soldier, I must cling to that.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Home
  • War
  • Fear

• War is a defeat for humanity.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • War
  • Humanity