Alexander Vi Quotes

#1. The rain lashed down upon Brentford and Pope Alexander VI raised his massive arm and pointed towards Archroy and the young priest. 'You, I will make an example of,' he roared. 'You will know the exquisite agonies of lingering death.' Archroy thumbed his nose. 'Balls,' said he.

Robert Rankin

#2. We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.

Susan Sontag

#3. May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.

Pope Alexander VI

#4. Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.

Euginia Herlihy

#5. Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

Pope Alexander VI

#6. Who are we to trust if not our family?

Pope Alexander VI

#7. to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125

Mark Helprin

#8. Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

Pope Alexander VI

#9. There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

Shane Claiborne

#10. One enemy at the time.

Sarah Dunant

#11. A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere. When I walk to the little market a few blocks away, it feels like a test of endurance.

Henri Cole

#12. The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

C. Everett Koop