Apotropaic Etymology Quotes

#1. Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.

Pope Francis

#2. I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Yanis Varoufakis

#4. Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

Robert Greene

#5. You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

Paul Harvey

#6. Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#7. I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

Linda Blair