It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today.
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Related Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA We will not mention this story to the pope today. ABRAHAM LEHRER It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit... HANI DURZY Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be" and all was light. ALEXANDER POPE But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ... ROBERT SARAH We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees ... POPE BENEDICT XVI The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho... HANS KUNG To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... The Pope?...how much divisions does he have? JOSEPH STALIN Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The mo... ROBERT SARAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone. JOHN ALLEN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism. MEHMET AGCA The Pope? How many divisions has he got? JOSEF STALIN The Pope? How many divisions has he got? JOSEPH STALIN My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of... AGA KHAN IV The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone ITALIAN PROVERB Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the... POPE FRANCIS One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I... FERNANDO FLORES Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have no... BRAD MELTZER I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him. DONALD TRUMP Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ... JERRY SPINELLI I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring... JAMES JOYCE There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho... CHRISSY TEIGEN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches... NICOLAS MADURO The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means... POPE PAUL VI Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined... VINCENT NICHOLS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You might as well try to see the Pope. IVA JOHNSON Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope Joh... ARN TELLEM The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its eart... IRVING BABBITT Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. LARRY ELLISON This is not a withdrawn pope who looks to the past. He looks at the situation as it is and is capabl... HANS KUENG Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo PAUL KRASSNER I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist. MARTIN LUTHER I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist MARTIN LUTHER Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In... MAJID KAZMI Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The chances of being elected pope decreases in proportion to the number of times he is described pap... GEORGE WEIGEL The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to ... POPE FRANCIS I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt. MADONNA After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in lit... POPE BENEDICT XVI Neither our actions as trustees, nor the court's decision, deprived Jane Pope of so much as a dime t... ART POPE He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer WILLIAM PROXMIRE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Ed Pope is not a spy, JOHN PETERSON He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right JULIO DAVILA Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. LARRY ELLISON Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. SAMUEL JOHNSON Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. OSCAR WILDE There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope OSCAR WILDE The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ... B. SMITH When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world tod... DANIEL J. BOORSTIN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal he... CHARLES HODGE I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop... MARTIN LUTHER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible. BRENDA FASSIE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer. WILLIAM PROXMIRE Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. WILLA CATHER Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ... MARTIN LUTHER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Tomorrow, today will be yesterday, and tomorrow will be today. By the nature of time when tomorrow w... FORREST CURRAN Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic wo... ORIANA FALLACI He will go down as a fifth-century pope in terms of who women are. FRANCES KISSLING He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander BARBARA W. TUCHMAN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... This is a sign from the pope, who is the highest Christian authority in this world, that he is denyi... ABDEL RAHMAN Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. POPE JOHN XXIII Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic ... ANTHONY MARRA I don't know how much the pope and Gloria Steinem really agreed on. TOM RODGERS There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being, FERNANDO FLORES The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust,
and not as a personal perquisite. STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic... ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-... ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus... ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be... ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin... ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th... ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p... ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ... ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can... ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w... ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express... ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou... ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre... ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,... ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that... ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali... ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath... ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv... ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ... ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy... ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some... ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t... ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ... ELIZABETH GILBERT