David Christian Quotes

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

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• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Event
  • Foreign Policy

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Thought

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Popular

• Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Day
  • Stage

• Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Special

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Analog
  • Slide-Rule

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Good
  • Real
  • Fire

• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Kind

• A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• These guys that take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and go straight to the tee? That's not the way to do it. When you warm up, hit 20 to 25 wedges, a few middle irons, and 10 to 15 3-woods and drivers. If you're going to putt, give yourself 10 minutes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Coffee

• I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Movie
  • You

• My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Acting
  • Approach

• Just because something is on trend, it might not work for you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • You
  • Just Because

• Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'

  

  Richie Furay Buffalo Springfield
  • Country
  • Festival

• Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Spirit
  • Priests
  • Catholics

• The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Eternity

• When we are inclined to boast of our position as Christians we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Remember

• If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

  

  David Christian