George Pell Quotes

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

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• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • London

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Society
  • Know

• The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Lifestyle
  • Within

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Wife
  • Honest
  • Meat

• ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Car
  • Days
  • Nose

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hate

• The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Understanding

• A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Friend
  • Lovers
  • Mistress

• The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.

  

  Paul Virilio
  • People
  • Real
  • Collaboration

• A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Writer
  • Reader
  • Emulation

• The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

  

  George Pell
  • Opportunity
  • Church
  • Organisation