Nadia Bolz-Weber Quotes

I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Place
  • Boston

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Management

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Ideas
  • U.S.

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Golf

• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Love
  • Start

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I feel old films should not be remade.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Feel
  • Old
  • I Feel

• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Control

• Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson
  • Problem
  • Faces
  • Solutions

• Success can not be administrated.

  

  Arleigh Burke
  • Success
  • Administrated

• I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine

  

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • God
  • Mystery
  • Divine