Conclave Quotes

#1. In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Red Smith

#2. The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

Elton John

#3. It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. He loved her to the point of madness, to obsession and even sacrifice. He wasn't Berdikhan, and he wouldn't make her Zafira. He'd rob her of her Gift, but she'd live. If he had to destroy Corruption, Conclave and himself, she'd live.

Grace Draven

#5. Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him ... but here we are.

Pope Francis

#6. Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

Robert T. Bakker

#8. The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.

Rebecca Stead

#10. What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

D.H. Lawrence

#11. From the Latin, con clavis: 'with a key'.

Robert Harris

#12. I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

Eva Longoria

#13. I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.

Craig Johnson

#14. I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Tony Kushner

#15. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H.L. Mencken

#16. The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details.That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?

Rick Riordan

#17. I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried

Cilla Black

#18. At any time of the day, corduroy is a highly stressful fabric. Rent collectors wear it. Tax collectors, too. History teachers add leather elbow patches.

Zadie Smith

#19. Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

Teju Cole

#20. A funny thing, love. It was not always, or even mostly, a sexual thing.

Mary Balogh