Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Rowan Williams

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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • World
  • Strong
  • Fighting

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • World
  • More

• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • God
  • Chaos

• I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Listening
  • Blow

• I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Believe
  • Terrorism

• A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Hope
  • Best

• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Music
  • Believe

• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Common
  • Through

• The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • True
  • Hope

• I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Humility
  • Warm

• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Way
  • Risk
  • Reputation

• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Good
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Child
  • Moment

• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up
  • Good
  • Courage

• I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Power
  • Government
  • U.S.

• And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • World
  • Way
  • Wisdom