Pontifical Academy Quotes & Sayings

Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution. — George Osborne

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. — Kanye West

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense. — Robertson Davies

Possibly, mrs. laird ... i'd say. except he's dead, you see. well, not completely dead. he's more of a resurrected god. he judges mortal spirits and feeds the hearts of the wicked to his pet monster.oh, and he has blue skin. i'm sure he'd make quite an impression on career day, for all those students aspiring to grow up and become ancient egyptian deities — Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan

I secondhand-smoke know him. It's like we've got shared custody of you. — Rainbow Rowell

Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same. — Alain De Benoist

And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end. — Orson Scott Card

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do. — Bill Cosby

Entertainers have no brain ... I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still ... — Seohyun

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially. — Bill McKibben

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things
beyond it. — Blaise Pascal

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger. — William Shenstone

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public — Mark Twain

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. — Robert Breault