Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.

Pope Benedict XVI

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• I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Child

• A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Life
  • You
  • Whatever

• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • My Life

• You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • You
  • Level

• Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Man
  • Black
  • Water

• Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • Music
  • Day

• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

  

  Wale
  • Respect
  • Place
  • Start

• We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brands

• Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Responsibility

• There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • You
  • Lucky

• For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Game
  • Change
  • End

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Responsibility
  • Thought

• I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Actor

• There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Parent

• I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Like
  • Level

• I don't care about money.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Care
  • About

• I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, 'This is what I want to do.' She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Fun

• The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Together
  • Impulse

• Let us bring the question to the test of experience and fact; and ask ourselves, considering our nature in its entire extent, what light we derive from a sustained and comprehensive view of its component parts, which may enable us to assert with certainty that we do or do not live after death.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Live
  • May
  • Experience

• We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI