Alan Hirsch Quotes

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Education
  • Focus

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Where
  • University
  • Professor

• Music means itself.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music

• It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Nature
  • Die

• 'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Suffering

• When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Music

• The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

  

  Louis Susman
  • War
  • Strong
  • Peace

• If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Art

• I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • Violence

• National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes.

  

  Mark Begich

• I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • People
  • Writing
  • Dream

• When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Great

• It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Found
  • Questions

• Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

  

  Lia Ices
  • Space

• There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Book
  • Guy

• One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Ethics
  • Cases
  • Behave

• But the message was not only for Jews. It was for all people, Jew and gentile. And it came to gentiles apart from observing the Jewish law. Thus, to be members of God’s covenantal people, it was not necessary for gentiles to become Jews. They did not need to be circumcised, observe the Sabbath, keep kosher, or follow any of the other prescriptions of the law. They needed only to believe in the death and resurrection of the messiah Jesus. This was an earth-shattering realization for Paul.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Message

• A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

  

  Alan Hirsch
  • Jesus
  • Spirituality
  • Transform