John Shelby Spong Quotes
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
-
And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
-
I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
-
Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
-
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
-
When I sing, people shut up.
-
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
-
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
-
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
-
I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
-
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
-
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
-
I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
-
People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
-
Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
-
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
-
I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
-
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
-
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
-
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
-
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
-
The Bible understands mercy as God’s own justice. Mercy is the heart of the biblical message, not by undercutting justice, but by surpassing it. The Old Testament speaks of God as a gracious and merciful God (Exod 34:6; Ps 86:15; etc.) and the New Testament calls God “the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation” (2 Cor 1:3; cf. Eph 2:4).
-
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
