Paul Tournier Quotes

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Tournier

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• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Mature
  • Immature

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Worst
  • Survive
  • Through

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I'm learning every day.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Learning
  • Day
  • Everyday

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Kind
  • Nothing
  • Ever

• The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time

• In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Dog
  • Door
  • Spanish

• All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Failure

• Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Guy

• People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • People
  • Wife
  • Dope

• The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Art

• The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • December
  • November

• Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Bad

• Christian! hence learn to do thy part,And leave the rest to Heaven.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Rest
  • Christian
  • Heaven

• Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Truth

• Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Future
  • Today
  • Consider

• The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

  

  Paul Tournier