Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
-
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.
-
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
-
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
-
Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
-
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
-
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
-
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
-
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
-
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
-
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
-
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
-
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
-
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
-
All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
-
Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
-
Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
-
Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
-
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
-
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
-
Wherever you are - be all there.
-
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
