Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

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• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Drama
  • New York

• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Words
  • Change

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Know

• May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Help

• Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money
  • She

• I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Pretty
  • Perfect

• We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Long
  • Environment
  • Financial

• Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Waiting

• A loving heart is an inventive one.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Heart

• My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • School
  • Dad
  • Mom

• In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.

  

  John Tiffany
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  • Imagination

• Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.

  

  Charlie Brooker
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  • Thinking
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• West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

  

  James Salter

• Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

  

  Anna Camp
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• I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Christian
  • Interest