John Cornwell quote: "The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment."

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, ...
JOHN CORNWELL

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their n...
JOHN CORNWELL

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibilit...
JOHN CORNWELL

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trick...
JOHN CORNWELL

Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of im...
JOHN CORNWELL

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote ...
JOHN CORNWELL

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the characte...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I like to get to bed with a clear head.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I've been stalked.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I refuse to sit on my laurels.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tensi...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identific...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat fac...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize h...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your l...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL

They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make al...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 month...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to w...
BERNARD CORNWELL

In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Not sure what I'd so with a notebook other than swat flies. If I want a break I'd rather go down to ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

We have a gaff-rigged topsail cutter, which sounds much grander than she really is, but she's exquis...
BERNARD CORNWELL

And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an American citizen, I still hear B...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I took time off last year to sail the Atlantic, and if I got more opportunities for blue-water cruis...
BERNARD CORNWELL

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacl...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

He did it. We know he did it. This is about whether that was the sole, individual intervening cause ...
CARL CORNWELL

In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
CARL CORNWELL

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.
CARL CORNWELL

God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I...
CARL CORNWELL

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

the case is far from closed.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

We've got a grudge on our shoulder. We're a lot better than what we're showing and we've got a real ...
DAVID CORNWELL

Everyone is doing forensics.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum oc...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The Ripper case is not one to be conclusively solved by DNA or fingerprints, ... and in a way, this ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I don't have a mentor.
BERNARD CORNWELL

I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a...
BETSY CORNWELL

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than...
BERNARD CORNWELL

This has to do with the internal dynamic, with the hardship imposed by structural adjustments, a soc...
RICHARD CORNWELL

Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt ...
BETSY CORNWELL

I start early - usually by 5 am, and work through to 5 pm, with breaks for lunch, boring exercise, e...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacati...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. gover...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it.
BERNARD CORNWELL

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill me...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. g...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Sager is kind of deceptive. He's got good feet, picks his holes well and is a good hitter. Morse is ...
RANDY CORNWELL

I did a TV series for the British History Channel a few years ago and for a few weeks afterwards I w...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL

And what, by the by, is a yale?"
"A heraldic beast," Thomas explained.
The doctor sniffed....
BERNARD CORNWELL

Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes th...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much no...
BERNARD CORNWELL

We should know who they are," I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.
BERNARD CORNWELL

It will never end.
Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, f...
BERNARD CORNWELL

That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traf...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping ov...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

My ongoing investigation is far from an obsession, but an excellent opportunity to provide a platfor...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Both were cremated so fast. To this day, it really bothers me. One minute they were there; the next ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Because if somebody literally proves me wrong not only will I feel horrible about it, but I will loo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

They won't get a hotel room on the 25th floor. They know a ladder won't reach that high. So they sta...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Griffin previously leased a house in the San Diego area from a San Diego business...
DAVID CORNWELL

It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it...
BERNARD CORNWELL

But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to cla...
BERNARD CORNWELL

The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc...
BERNARD CORNWELL

We all suffer from dreams.
BERNARD CORNWELL

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to w...
BERNARD CORNWELL

It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.
BERNARD CORNWELL

We didn't collectively come together to either start the game well or finish the game well.
DAVID CORNWELL

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

. . . she was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

i had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. t...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn...
BERNARD CORNWELL

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you...
BERNARD CORNWELL

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making be...
BERNARD CORNWELL

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, bu...
BERNARD CORNWELL

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Writing is a solitary occupation.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Television is a young person's medium.
BERNARD CORNWELL

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear think...
BERNARD CORNWELL

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
BERNARD CORNWELL

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains...
BERNARD CORNWELL

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for m...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I brought my hand to the back of his neck and leaned into him, sliding my fingers into the curls at ...
BETSY CORNWELL

Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.
BETSY CORNWELL

The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch
BERNARD CORNWELL

Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm." I try to brush it of...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said.
"I envy him," I said.
"Envy him, lord?"
"Most o...
BERNARD CORNWELL

And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just s...
BERNARD CORNWELL

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.

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The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.

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