Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Father
  • Son
  • Name

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Body

• I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • Nice

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • Good
  • Government

• You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Down
  • Slow

• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Acting

• My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Movies
  • Something
  • Continue

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Choices

• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Support
  • Doing

• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Rap

• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real estate, there are real consequences to its culture and cohesion.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Real
  • Culture

• It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Financial

• In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Life
  • Rest

• The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Time
  • Clever
  • Shopping

• The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

  

  Angus Young
  • America
  • Girl
  • Band

• I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Awesome

• Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.

  

  Dave Foley
  • Country
  • Pride

• I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

  

  John le Carre
  • Good
  • Live

• It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer