Miroslav Volf Quotes

Faith idles when character shrivels.

Miroslav Volf

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• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Acting

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • True
  • Football

• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • Little
  • Directing

• I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

  

  Mary Beard

• I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.

  

  Kenneth Langone

• Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Future

• While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Mind

• When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

  

  Brigham Young
  • May
  • Silence

• I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Different
  • Team
  • Decision

• When I read 'Rocky V,' it was a terrific story, a great script. Rocky died at the end. He has this devastating fight with Tommy Gunn, ends up in an ambulance with his head in Adrian's lap, and by the time they get to the hospital, he's dead.

  

  John G. Avildsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • People
  • Experience
  • Hope

• Faith idles when character shrivels.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Character