Jacques Ellul Quotes
Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.Jacques Ellul
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan -
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Omar Bongo -
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor Swift
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
Tavi Gevinson -
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam -
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
W. H. Davies -
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
Orlando Bloom -
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
Barry Mann
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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.
Ted Turner -
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
G. Gordon Liddy -
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi -
People always give me styling products and stuff.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
Wayne Rooney -
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
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It's not often that I'm being called femme fatale.
Elodie Yung -
Scoundrels are always sociable.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.
Dele Alli -
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.
Jacques Ellul