Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

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• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I didn't want to do something typical.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Something
  • Typical

• There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Memories

• I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • May
  • Care

• I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Difference

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• The living blind and seeing Dead together lieAs if in love . . . There was no more hating then,And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Heart
  • Together

• Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life
  • Business
  • Serious

• my fiancé is so handsome. Imma have to send his parents a fruit basket thanking them for creating the perfect man.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Parents
  • Perfect

• Every time you get told you get a part, it's just wonderfully soothing and incredibly fantastic and healing. You have a bad day at school, you come home and get told you've got a part in something, and it's just like, 'Yeah, it's all worth it'.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Time
  • School
  • Home

• Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.

  

  Bernice King
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Movie

• My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

  

  David Cone
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Fall

• Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Wise
  • Search

• I've learnt the best way to put on the fragrance is by spraying it and walking into it so it's all over you.

  

  Anna Ewers
  • Walking

• I like talking. I like acting.

  

  Denzel Washington

• Whenever I am working or training, I feel good.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Good
  • Training

• As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn't inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor.

  

  James Rothman
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Father

• You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Believe

• Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

  

  Rowan Williams
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