Michael Palin Quotes

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Michael Palin

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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales
- Time
- You
- Try
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Frances O'Grady
- People
- Good
- Thinking
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

Sam Kean
- Important
- Long
- Pretty
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

P. J. O'Rourke
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

F. Sionil Jose
- Wife
- Habit
- Flame
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

Fidel Castro
- World
- Energy
- Model