Festa Del Papa Quotes & Sayings

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee

Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend. — Anthony D. Williams

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention. — Jane Austen

Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. — Charles Bukowski

There should be more natural disasters. I like those because you can't blame anyone. You can't put an earthquake on trial. You can't send a flood to the chair. Look at the fucking zoo I live in. All these bent up little players running around through the ruins saying, "Isn't this groovy and decadent? Cool!" Looking like Death and thinking they're something. I would like to help. I really would. I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to. — Henry Rollins

What I'm saying is that preachers are like politicians. They choose what sin or crime they want to fight and they get their people riled up to do the same, making hate and fear. That hate and fear mask other things they should be concentrating on and it keeps people separate. — Rain Carrington

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. — Kunal Nayyar

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. — Charles Dickens