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

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• God
• Heart
• Power
• Strong

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

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• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

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• 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
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• 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.'

  

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• 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
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• 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
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• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

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• 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
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• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

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• 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
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• I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• 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.

  

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• 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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• We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

  

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• I am trying every genre.

  

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• It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

  

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• Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

  

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• I watch 'The Bachelor'. It's one of those things where I always think if it didn't exist and it was on 'SNL,' we would think it would be a ridiculous, funny idea. But it actually exists... It's a glorious train wreck that I love to watch.

  

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• On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.

  

  ASAP Rocky
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• Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

  

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• 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
  • World
  • God
  • Heart