Karen Armstrong Quotes

I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Karen Armstrong

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• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  

  Adam Carolla
  • She
  • Think
  • Funny

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Problems

• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• Days are long when you're filming, so I catch up on sleep during breaks to avoid looking tired.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Up
  • Long
  • Sleep

• In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Return
  • Bring

• Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • High
  • Motherhood

• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Home
  • America

• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Player

• The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Media

• Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Art

• Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer...

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Future
  • Purpose

• We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Time

• It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Perspective

• They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Earth
  • Humanity

• I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • May
  • Sound

• If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

  

  Doris Roberts
  • Life
  • Evil

• Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Listening
  • Kissing
  • Punk

• I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

  

  Karen Armstrong