H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes

Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

H. Richard Niebuhr

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• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Time
  • Reality

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Capacity
  • Internal

• Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • You
  • Down

• If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Organization
  • Step

• There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Home

• I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Start

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Lovely

• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Last

• We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'

  

  Carl Honore
  • Relationship
  • Baby
  • Poverty

• Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • You
  • Young

• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

• It's good to be sexy, but when that's all they can see - no.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Sexy

• When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Great

• We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Football

• You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information that can help you form your opinion, that might not be your parents, and might not be what the media is trying to force down your throat. So that's why it's important for artists and musicians to speak up, because for those people who have an inkling that their parents' views aren't right or that their parents don't have any views or whatever, that's an alternative source of information that can help them form their own opinion.

  

  Ellie Rowsell
  • Help
  • Information
  • Parent

• All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Things
  • Matter
  • Ways

• I think sometimes with the parsnip, people are maybe a little afraid and don't use it as often.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • People

• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. How humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  

  Alfred Smee
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Faraday

• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr