DJ Paul Quotes

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.

The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

There's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

That shot moved like... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut

I would believe myself damned if I robbed God of one atom of His glory. I would believe myself more wicked than Lucifer if I had anything else in view but God.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.