Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Game

• I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Care
  • First
  • Debate

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Lost

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • America
  • Crisis

• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Know

• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Live
  • Done
  • Help

• I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Moral

• I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Think
  • Partner

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• The dualistic philosophy reigned supreme in Europe, dominating the development of Western science. But with the advent of atomic physics, findings based on demonstrable experiment were seen to negate the dualistic theory, and the trend of thought since then has been back to the monistic conception of the ancient Taoists.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Science

• Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Exciting

• Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.

  

  Carson Palmer
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Happens

• Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • Running
  • Mean
  • Care

• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Running