Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
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And we did so based on the belief that while these transitions will be hard and take time, societies based upon democracy and openness and the dignity of the individual will ultimately be more stable, more prosperous, and more peaceful.
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As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
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You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.
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The journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
