Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use - not abuse - of natural resources

Pope Benedict XVI

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Women love a self-confident bald man.

  

  Larry David
  • Women
  • Love
  • Man

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Women
  • Think
  • Movement

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Marriage

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Playing
  • Talking
  • Behavior

• The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • News
  • Journalism
  • Early

• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Censorship

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • May
  • Friends

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • World
  • Rest
  • Idea

• I will choose only the least harmful way for the country. And that is the greatest benefit I am conferring on the country by embracing Buddhism; for Buddhism is a part and parcel of Bhâratîya culture. I have taken care that my conversion will not harm the tradition of the culture and history of this land.'

  

  Babasaheb
  • Country
  • History
  • Culture

• I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Twilight

• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
  • Life
  • Real
  • Abuse

• I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Abuse
  • Accepted

• I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

  

  Allen West

• One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use - not abuse - of natural resources

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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