Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

Pope Benedict XVI

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• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Real
  • Me
  • Balance

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Day

• I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • World
  • End
  • Try

• I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Works
  • Ridiculous
  • Edge

• Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Why
  • Look
  • Clothes

• A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Mistake
  • Lies
  • Process

• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Fun
  • House
  • Energy

• I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Guy
  • Listening
  • Skateboarder

• I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Think
  • Know
  • Wise

• Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• We treated all of the dead with dignity.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Dead
  • Dignity
  • Treated

• The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Working Hard

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Church
  • Christmas

• People have to do what they want to do.

  

  J Mascis
  • People
  • Want

• Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Environment

• Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Change
  • Possible
  • Acceptance

• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Truth
  • Teach
  • False

• I never make films thinking 'This is my film. This right here is undoubtedly Kim Jee-Woon style.' I am not even sure what 'Kim Jee-Woon style' is. When I make films, I never allow myself to make hard-set decisions ahead of time.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Style

• This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Art
  • Character
  • Creativity

• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI