George Carey Quotes

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

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• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
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  • Tree

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
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• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
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• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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  • God
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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
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• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

  

  Andrew Cohen

• I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Issue
  • Declaration

• What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Die
  • Present
  • Heaven

• Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Nature
  • Culture

• We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

  

  George Carey
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Doubt