Thomas Keating Quotes
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
-
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
-
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
-
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
-
There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
-
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
-
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
-
My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
-
Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
-
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
-
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
-
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
-
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
-
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
-
I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, 'Would Ricky be interested in doing this?'
-
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!
-
I love 'Seinfeld.'
-
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
-
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
-
Humanism is only another name for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians whose heads are too occupied with the world of mathematics and physics to worry about religious categories.
-
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
-
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
-
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
-
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
