Ishmael Beah Quotes

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

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• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Family
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • People
  • Idea
  • Working

• To me, style is consistency.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Me
  • Style
  • Consistency

• Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • God

• Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Blue
  • Mercy

• Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Life

• My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…

  

  Libba Bray
  • Kids
  • Dad

• What is Bresson's genre? He doesn't have one. Bresson is Bresson. He is a genre in himself. Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Dovzhenko, Vigo, Mizoguchi, Bunuel - each is identified with himself. The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin - comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Comedy
  • Simple
  • Unique

• If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Single
  • Literature

• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Game
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Chance

• The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Country
  • Mountain
  • Accounts

• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • God
  • Writing
  • True

• I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

  

  Ishmael Beah
  • God
  • Believe
  • Tradition