Pope Francis Quotes

I am happy that America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams. Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Dreams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people.

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• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Justice
  • Growth

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Safety

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • City
  • Order

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Father

• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Happy
  • Circumstances

• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Difficult
  • Solitude

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pretty
  • Find
  • Jeans

• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.

  

  Jim Gerlach

• I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Italian

• The senses serve to blot out many more aspects of reality than they allow you to perceive. They are actually rather rigid limiting devices, yet in many inner explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms that the senses can use.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Experience
  • Reality

• You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People

• There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I am happy that America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams. Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Dreams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people.

  

  Pope Francis
  • People
  • Life
  • America