Daniel Berrigan Quotes

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Daniel Berrigan

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• It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

  

  Beck
  • Me
  • Creating
  • Seeing

• When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mom

• I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Art
  • College

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Death
  • Penalty

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Start
  • Diet

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Amazing

• The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Support
  • Goal

• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Done
  • Education

• Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Against
  • Daring

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  

  Charles Eastman
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices

• There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

  

  Nahum Goldmann
  • Country
  • Why
  • Israel

• Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Impossible