John Shelby Spong Quotes
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?John Shelby Spong
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn -
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
Yuna -
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
Harriet Tubman -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Bear Grylls -
I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
Larry Holmes -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass -
I'm a very lucky girl.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West -
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Samuel Lover -
Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
Tecumseh -
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
Sam Harris -
Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
Ted Deutch -
The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.
John Ralston Saul
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen -
The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.
Charles H. Percy -
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.
Jillian Hervey -
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.
Howard Bailey Jr. -
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
John Shelby Spong