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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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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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 brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and we can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive. When we ignore these quintessential dimensions of humanity, we deprive people of ways to heal from trauma and restore their autonomy. Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self.
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The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
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If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
