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Umberto Contarello Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“I have decided not to choose. Not choosing being the only thing at which I truly excel.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Paralysis, Indecision
“My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Grief, When Words Fail
“Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: The Bible, The Old
“Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Religion
“Perhaps we cannot fully express our faith but we can express our tenderness.”
— Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Faith, Mystery of Christianity
“Sex has no value, because it lives and dies in the present. But love doesn't. Love is dangerous, because it looks to the future.”
— Attanasio's Mother, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Sex vs. Love, Sex
“You have no idea how many objectives can be obtained by humiliating ones fellow man. But there's a secret to it. The person humiliated can't realize they'd been humiliated.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Humiliation is the strongest feeling, manipulation
“I've always associated good mood with stupidity.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Happy People, Moods
“Art passes too but a little more slowly because art is more cunning.”
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Art, Attempts At Everlasting Creations
“Like happiness, like intelligence Like God. When I was a boy a man took advantage of me. And as he did so, he would say: 'God does not exist.' And I would answer back, in God's place: Even if He doesn't exist, we desperately need to believe He is there. ”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Heidegger’s Bridge, God, Faith
“The right motivations can move the world.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Potential, Affirmative
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