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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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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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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I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
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Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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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.
