John Polkinghorne Quotes

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

John Polkinghorne

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.

  

  Washed Out
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Better

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Culture
  • Years
  • Financial

• I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Nice

• Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • More
  • Left
  • Irritating

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Quite
  • Carefully
  • Curate

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Lost

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

  

  John P. Kotter
  • Future
  • Vision

• I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Music

• I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Global Economy
  • Job market
  • Structural changes

• I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

  

  James Bay
  • Mirror

• Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Song
  • Track

• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  

  John Polkinghorne