Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde
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The mandate given to me was one of change.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.
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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
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The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
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It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
