The Borgias Giulia Farnese Quotes & Sayings

God's power is not to be demonstrated thus, for thou art the prince of hail, and everybody knows that water quenches fire; but I, the prince of fire, will go down and cool the flame within and intensify it without (so as to consume the executioners), and thus will I perform a miracle within a miracle. — Various

Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm! — Pope Francis

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam. — Daniel Pipes

To have little is to possess. — Laozi

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell? — Dorothy Parker

God has HIS way of letting you know when you made the right or wrong decision. Pay attention when it happens. — Carlos Wallace

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. — Daniel Keyes

She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'. — Jack Black

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life. — Glen Hansard

As I've said before, I never understand why people ski down a slope to a bar and then go on a lift so they can ski down the same slope again. That's like walking to the pub on a Sunday, then going home and walking to the pub again. Madness. — Jeremy Clarkson

If each person in the room promises that in the twenty-four hours beginning the very next day she or he will do at least one outrageous thing in the name of simple justice, then I promise I will, too. It doesn't matter whether the act is as small as saying, "Pick yourself up" (a major step for those of us who have been our family's servants) or as large as calling for a strike. The point is that, if each of us does as promised, we can be pretty sure of two results. First, the world one day later won't be quite the same.
Second, we will have such a good time doing it that we will never again get up in the morning saying, "WILL I do anything outrageous?" but only "WHAT outrageous act will I do today — Gloria Steinem

This is a contradiction to all finite play. Because the purpose of a finite game is to bring play to an end with the victory of one of the players, each finite game is played to end itself. The contradiction is precisely that all finite play is play against itself. — James P. Carse