Nadia Bolz-Weber Quotes
The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that "this is from God.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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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.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
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Until I don’t lose, until I am not defeated such allegations will continue. People who have been trying to defeat me for the past 12 years have been using all their strength. They couldn't give me even a scratch. This is their ego problem.
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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!
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I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that.
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.
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Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
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The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that "this is from God.
