And Quotes

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!

Be men and women with others and for others: true champions at the service of others.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.