Deaths From Disease

"Un prince est le premier serviteur et le premier magistrat de l’État."

"Le silence du peuple est la lecon des rois."

"A prince is the first servant and the first magistrate of the State."

"After us, the deluge!"

"The Duc de V—— was a nobleman of high rank and great wealth. He said to the King one evening at supper, “Your Majesty does me the favour to treat me with great kindness: I should be inconsolable if I had the misfortune to fall under your displeasure. If such a calamity were to befall me, I should endeavour to divert my grief by improving some beautiful estates of mine in such and such a province;” and he thereupon gave a description of three or four fine seats. About a month after, talking of the disgrace of a Minister, he said, “I hope your Majesty will not withdraw your favour from me; but if I had the misfortune to lose it, I should be more to be pitied than anybody, for I have no asylum in which to hide my head.” All those present, who had heard the description of the beautiful country houses, looked at each other and laughed. The King said to Madame de Pompadour, who sat next to him at table, “People are very right in saying that a liar ought to have a good memory.”"

"The Christian community of the mother church in Jerusalem has always been in need from the beginning. It is therefore a duty for all Catholics in the world to sustain Christians in that Blessed Land."

"In Jesus Christ, was revealed a God of love, who preaches and sends out love. And that love must be shown to men through the word, the sacraments and charity."

"One has to trust that God loves you. He does not choose you because you are intelligent, beautiful or have other human qualities; He chooses you because he loves you and you have to trust in His love and I think this is the main principle and a very important thing for a bishop."

"Symbolic theology shows what immense perspectives may be opened, starting from the Scripture in the liturgy, to make our faith more profound, to transform our life into a daily liturgy and to recover, ourselves, the face of the icon by whom we were created."

"In order to see that the Parish becomes the place of encounter between Christ and our brethren we must put into practice the commitment undertaken in Medellin, Puebla and Santo Domingo, of converting the Parish into a community of small communities and movements. In this way the Pastor becomes a stimulator of the lay leaders and a catechist of the catechists so that all those baptized - adults and children - can become living and responsible members."

"Today our church, our Catholic Church has a great opportunity to evangelize our communities that are not just here or there but communities who don't have bread for their children."

"It's not a bad idea to insist on discussions in another country in order to avoid the issue of location and to find a way to establish that humanitarian exchange."

"Nowhere, in a democratic country, one can think of doing politics by defending their points of view with weapons."

"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need still to be useful, even though the parts get fewer."

"I traveled in a world that once was—Hollywood of the war and immediate postwar years. And I existed in a world that never is—the prison of the mind. If what I have learned from these experiences can be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: life is not a movie. But I do not make that point in a sad or regretful way. I can only wonder, if my life had been a movie, would a director have cast Gene Tierney to play the part? The bitter with the sweet makes for a better part."

"I learned that carrying on while you're broken is not the answer. I tried to work harder and harder, thinking that work would cure everything. All it did was make things worse."

"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."

"As long as I was playing someone else, I was fine. When I had to be myself, my problems began."

"The word "actress" has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."

"On this night, Mrs. Poe, lingering on the bed of disease, and surrounded by her children, asks your assistance and asks it perhaps for the last time."

"Aloisea Inyumba said most conflicts, women are hurt most, so women understand most the importance of peace."

"When people talk about changing a country, they’re talking about the beneficiaries. And who are the beneficiaries? The women. We can’t just have peace delivered to us on a plate; we have to be active participants. The message today in our country is this: women have to be agents of peace. Much as we want to benefit from this process, we also want to be a part of it."

"We need to look into our history, to examine the political, economic, social, and cultural causes of our conflict, which we are trying to expose to the general public, the women, the youth in the schools."

"What’s important is to stick to our principles, be honest, be active, be articulate, be reliable."

"People should not be worried of the returnees. They will be disarmed by the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC)"

"Advised to join micro finance schemes in order to set up income-generating projects and urged to adopt a culture of saving."

"The first electoral law was established in 1999 but so many things have changed since then. This new bill will make everything easier to understand for both voters and the candidates."

"When people talk about changing a country, they’re talking about the beneficiaries."

"Aloisea Inyumba said There’s no way you can talk about development, about transformation of society, unless the biggest part of your population is involved."

"Aloisea Inyumba said Women at the grassroots are a positive force. They need to be strong, and we need to listen to them. We were once there."

"There is a big part for me, as a woman, to play."

"The Press treated their marriage as front-page news. Here, flouting all the dangers he knew to be implicit in [inter-racial marriage], was the scion of the ancient and illustrious House of Khama...And here, seeking to be an African queen, was an English working girl who had been reared to expect nothing more exotic than a semi-detached house in one of London’s great dormitories and a husband who every morning would don his bowler hat, seize his umbrella and catch a red double-decker bus to the city."

"We ask for bread and you give us stones."

"I travel to Britain and Switzerland as part of my charity work for the Red Cross, but I have no desire to go anywhere else... My home is here... When I came to this country I became a Motswana."

"I submit that the reality of communion is squarely founded on the truth of community which in turn is fundamentally rooted in the fact of unity. Thus, in the same way that there is no community in the absence of unity, there is neither communion if there is no community."

"There is a reason for everything: God commands creation and creatures. There is no such thing a good and bad luck, which would mean that God has no control over man, nature and events."

"I think, we ought to pray for the government and we ought to exercise patience. Let there be constructive criticism. Nigeria is a big country, mark you and it has the potentiality of leading Africa."

"The purpose of history is to know the past in order to adjust the Present and plan for the future."

"I have a dream not only for the North but for the entire nation. I have a dream that Nigeria will be truly united one day. I have a dream that Nigeria will have a buoyant, a strong economy. I have a dream that Nigeria will have the political cloud that will enable her to lead rest of the Africa and the blacks all over the world. I have a dream that Nigerians will come to regard one another as their brothers keepers. I have a dream that Nigeria will take her proper place in the committee of nations and will be one of the leading nations of the world. I have that dream, God's willing.. And all these ugliest things that are happening today will come to an end. Only God has no beginning nor end. Everything that you see good or bad has a beginning and it will have an end. By the grace of God we will see the end of all the crisis in Nigeria. By the grace of God we will come to know peace and stability in Nigeria. By the grace of God we will be our brothers keepers. Unfortunately today it is not so, and that is why I'm worried and that is why we are working for it.. Today Nigeria is not what it was. Nigeria was a decent country, morally sound, yes. But today, even the institutions of public is breaking down today. Respect for elders and constituted authority could used to be the cardinal principle in our society is now in it's lowest aim. Honesty where it does not pay has become meaningless. In short, there is meaninglessness in philosophy, insecurity in politics, chaos in politics, immoralities in society, corruption in economy, frustration in art, lack of creativity in literature."

"Mr President; I see under you Nigeria realising her dreams because; I have a dream that Nigeria will one day be truly united; I have a dream that Nigeria will build a sound economy; I have a dream that Nigeria will have the political cloud that will enable her to lead rest of the Africa and the blacks all over the world; I have a dream that Nigeria will take her proper place in the committee of nations.."

"Last time I checked, I had some cancer in my lungs, spine and my liver."

"We're all a little lost and that's alright."

"Life doesn’t always give breaks to those that deserve it—but we knew that already."

"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy."

"Exactly two months after marrying my wife, Jennifer, and just six weeks into my job as the First District's Congressman, I was given unexpected and rather shocking news. Just like millions of other Americans, I was told by my doctor: you have cancer. After prayers and long talks with those closest to me, I was determined to fight it like hell."

"Stalin, soon after he came to power, ordered his cronies to invade Catholic seminaries (...) with young men that had neither faith nor morals. Now (...) the ideal cases: homosexual. Obviously, you don't suppose that someone (...) well, it's much more complicated, you know, to have an affair with a woman. But if you're a homosexual, and then it was a tragic mission (...). [Dodd] declared publicly — I repeat, publicly — that in the course of the 20 years of activities for the Communists, she recruited some 1,100 young men."

"You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.”"

"Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny, I don't think you can make fun of ISIS, but almost everything is funny. And If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So I don't mind ethnic humor. I like ethnic humor. I like dialect jokes. Laughter is a very subjective thing. If it's funny to you it's funny. And a lot of things are funny to me. … Life is funny, sex is funny, marriage is funny, eating is funny, sports can be funny, everything is funny. Homes, horses, real estate. Everything is funny. People who are funny are funny. If you know you're funny you're funny."

"I've never been drunk in my life. I've been high, but I've never been drunk. I think it's a fear of loss of control, but I never liked the taste of liquor."

"What you want in an interview is four things: You want someone who can explain what they do very well, who can have a sense of humor and hopefully is self-deprecating, who has a bit of a chip on their shoulder, and passion. If you have passion, a chip on the shoulder, a sense of humor, and you can explain what you do very well, it doesn't matter if you're a plumber or a singer or a politician. If you have those four things, you are interesting."