Jacques Ellul Quotes
Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.Jacques Ellul
Quotes to Explore
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
K. Flay -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky -
I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
Ueli Gegenschatz -
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
T. R. Knight -
There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
Palmer Luckey -
I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
Landon Donovan -
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman -
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
Garth Nix -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver -
At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
Ted Turner -
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
Patrick Kavanagh
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
Idina Menzel -
Originally, 'The Monster' started out as this indie, Florence And The Machine, tribal-y, almost Spanish-esque dance record.
Jon Bellion -
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
Sophocles -
I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.
Shirley Henderson -
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
Irvine Welsh -
Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.
Jacques Ellul