Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.Eugene H. Peterson
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde -
'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
Aaron Paul -
Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
Taylor Sheridan -
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
Sam Harris -
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld -
The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
Gary Locke
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts -
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti -
I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
Kapil Dev -
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
Wayne Rooney -
I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Rachel Nichols -
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
Maisie Williams -
I'm a serial monogamist.
Kate Bosworth
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
Haley Joel Osment -
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
I love Niecy Nash. I would take a vacation with the lady. She is just delightful.
Jack McBrayer -
To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.
Rumi -
It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.
Paul Dano -
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
Eugene H. Peterson