Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.
Quotes to Explore
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
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I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of guys that work with my body a lot.
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A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
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I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.
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God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.
