Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

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• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

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• I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

  

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• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

  

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• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

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• I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

  

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• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

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• When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

  

  Zach Woods
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• We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

  

  Larry Smith
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• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

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• Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

  

  Sam Graves
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• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

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• When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

  

  Lucy Dacus
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• You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.

  

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• I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

  

  Bradley Walsh
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• My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

  

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• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

  

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• We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

  

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• I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

  

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• Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

  

  Betty Williams
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• Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • People
  • World
  • Promise