Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control.
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
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I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.
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As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
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Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.
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My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.
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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.
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I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.
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Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
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Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
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No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control.
