"If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal."

-- Pope Francis

#Mother Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Normal Quotes

“One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn't respect them, you'd probably give them a wide berth.”
“Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62”
“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.”
“In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.Â this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.Â My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.Â Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin
“God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.”

Source : Edward Topsell (1967). “The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects”
“Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.”

Source : William Boyd (2013). “The Blue Afternoon”, p.114, Penguin UK
“As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful...”
“I want to write songs and play them for people - live.”

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