Quotes of the Week - July 15, 2008:
"You are my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy, my charming
prince." -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's tribute to husband, Nicholas
Sarkozy, president of France.
"Barack, he's talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts
off." -- Jesse Jackson, US Democrat and civil rights activist,
about his party's presidential candidate Barack Obama.
"Many things that happened in the jungle we have to leave in the
jungle." -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, refuses to discuss
certain details about her six years of captivity in jungles of Colombia.
"Europe is a family of 27 nations, we can't leave anyone behind."
-- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, urging European Parliament to
speed negotiations over Lisbon Treaty.
Authors:
Pope John Paul II Quotes, Famous Pope John Paul II Quotations
She
had chosen to be not just the least but to be the servant of
the least. Pope John Paul II Beatifying Mother Teresa, October 2003
Where
self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome
system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring
of initiative and creativity. Pope John Paul II
The
truth is not always the same as the majority decision. Pope John Paul II
The
great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose
idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact
that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II
The
fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love
of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing
side by side, until they end in separation. Pope John Paul II
To
maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents
and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in
a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II
The
cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended
to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. Pope John Paul II
Freedom
consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right
to do what we ought. Pope John Paul II
Science
can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can
purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II
Love
is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves
it. Pope John Paul II Speech in Galway, Ireland, September 1979
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