John Shelby Spong Quotes
If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.John Shelby Spong
Quotes to Explore
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer -
All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. Guest -
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
Natalia Makarova -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
W. Bruce Cameron
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
Narendra Modi -
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
Jack Nicklaus -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
Carles Puigdemont
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
Christina Aguilera -
In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being in the Will of God, and I believe that nothing could be better. That is not to say that I do not want other things, and other ways of living, and other places to see, but in my right mind I know that my hopes and plans for myself could not be any better than He has arranged and fulfilled them. Thus may we all find it, and know the truth of the Word which says, He will be our guide even until death.
Jim Elliot -
Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics.
Laurie Hernandez -
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
Chad Harbach -
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
Carole King -
If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.
John Shelby Spong