Papistical Quotes & Sayings

It took a second for me to understand what he meant. Then another to get that he was serious. A third second to do something about the first two seconds, which was to sit down. — Rick Yancey

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye. — Michael Palin

The routine requires balancing a number of virtues: freedom and discipline, craft and protocol, specialized ability and group collaboration. And for checklists to help achieve that balance, they have to take two almost opposing forms. They supple a set of checks to ensure the stupid but critical stuff is not overlooked, and they supply another set of checks to ensure people talk and coordinate and accept responsibility while nonetheless being left the power to manage the nuances and unpredictabilities the best they know how. — Atul Gawande

We disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards. — Robert Ferrar

What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happens afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry. — Suzanne Berne

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home. — G.K. Chesterton

Russell Wilson." Eric sighed dreamily then pointed a fork in my direction. "He's better than Tom Brady. — Rachel Van Dyken

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. — Vincent Van Gogh

Everybody hurts some days. It's okay to be afraid. Everybody hurts, everybody screams. Everybody feels this way. — Avril Lavigne

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer. — Pico Iyer