Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Watson

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

Mel Brooks

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Mel Brooks

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Mel Brooks

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

Mel Brooks

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Mel Brooks

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

Mary Oliver

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

Mary Oliver

Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it--the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.

Mary Daly

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves....

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Martin Buber

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Martin Amis

Laughter always forgives.

Martin Amis

Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound, and also the most sinister and animalistic one. He understands every note of every octave that separates the liberating shout of mirth from the cackle of a bully or the snigger of a sadist.

Martin Amis

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Pope John Paul II

Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Pope John Paul II

Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

Pope John Paul II

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre Bonnard

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

Pierre Corneille

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.

Philipp Meyer

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

Philippa Gregory

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Philip J. Kaplan

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

Pope Francis

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

Pope Francis

Peace is the language we must speak.

Rachael Ray

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.