Thomas Keating Quotes

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Someone
  • Fast

• Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • People
  • Football
  • Win

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Why
  • Think
  • Stop

• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Teenager
  • Going

• What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Suits

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Artist

• Never give up, and never give in.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Never
  • Give

• At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Energy
  • Effort
  • Things

• I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Gullible

• I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Fear
  • Stop
  • Natural

• As a formal analytical point of reference, primacy of orientation to the attainment of a specific goal is used as the defining characteristic of an organization which distinguishes it from other types of social systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Organization

• Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

  

  Larry Wall

• Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • World
  • Present
  • Supernatural

• Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert

• What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Freedom
  • Accomplished
  • Misfortune

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of Donald Trump.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Up
  • Trump

• It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain.

  

  Galen Strawson
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Concern

• What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Fall
  • Process
  • Wanted