Alexander Schmemann Quotes
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.Alexander Schmemann
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar -
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
Fernando Flores -
For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
Rachel Sklar -
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
Macaulay Culkin -
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
W. C. Fields
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
Aage Bohr -
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
Jack McDevitt -
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein -
'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
Alvaro Enrigue -
To enable large U.S. banks to support their clients better, the Volcker rule should be clarified.
James P. Gorman -
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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I have this old worn-out, skintight T-shirt that I love. That's sexy.
Liz Vassey -
The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
Azim Premji -
I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
David Mackay -
I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
Charles Schwab -
Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
Jo Brand -
I have always thought I was the best ever player.
George Best
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Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
Bobby Ray Inman -
When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.
Claire Denis -
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
Idries Shah -
I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.
Elijah Wood -
Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.
William Wyler -
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
Alexander Schmemann