Popish Recusants Quotes

#1. The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

Paulo Coelho

#2. Whatever you think, that you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

Elizabeth McGovern

#4. Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.

Dean Goodman

#6. The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.

John Lennon

#7. Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

McKayla Maroney

#8. There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

Alan Coren

#9. They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

Tom Waits

#10. Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#11. That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Richard Hough