Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.
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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
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In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
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Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.
