Pope Emeritus Quotes & Sayings

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. — Jane Yolen

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness
united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies. — Janet Evanovich

The main dry storage room of Sin du Jour is filled with a light unseen on Earth since a time of abject innocence.
And that was long ago, indeed. — Matt Wallace

I am always able to speak with him (Christ) inwardly. But I am nevertheless just a lowly little man who does not always reach all the way up to him. — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

What we call a person is a concept attached to a stream of consciousness. This stream, just like the person, is without beginning or end. It is a question of an ephemeral continuum that depends on changing causes and conditions. — Dalai Lama XIV

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. — Anthony Kiedis

His[Jesus'] death on the Cross is the culmination of that turning of God against himself in which he gives himself in order to raise man up and save him. This is love in its most radical form. — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid. — Patrice Motsepe

Tell me, do you really believe all this tripe you spout?" There was no venom in Nortah's tone, just vague curiosity. "We call each other brothers but we share no blood. We're just boys forced together by this Order. Don't you ever wonder what it would have been like if we had met on the outside? Would we have been friends then, or enemies? Our fathers were enemies, did you know that? — Anthony Ryan

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm. — Ronald Coase

The bank of love is never bankrupt. — Steve Maraboli

Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her. — Truth Devour

It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up. — Patrick Kane

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. — Dave Barry