Karen Armstrong Quotes
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.Karen Armstrong
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
Pamela Nicholson -
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
Jackie DeShannon -
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
Vicente Fox -
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
Aaron Diehl -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
Francesca Annis -
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
Laura Kightlinger -
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
Zhang Xin -
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
Haley Lu Richardson -
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West -
There is only one me.
Ja Rule -
In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
Felicity Jones -
I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
Tara Strong -
It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
Adam Lambert
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I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
Lee Smith -
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
Bill Watterson -
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
Bill Paxton -
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.
Daniel Radcliffe -
If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.
Donald Miller -
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.
Karen Armstrong