Jim Wallis Quotes
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
Quotes to Explore
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
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The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
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I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
