William P. Young Quotes

I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.

William P. Young

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Home
  • Like
  • Second

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Different
  • Career

• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Animal

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I've always loved film more than theater.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Film
  • Loved

• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • England
  • Canada
  • Scotland

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Movie
  • Parents

• Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Things
  • Very
  • Involved

• We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Move
  • Moved

• We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Politics
  • Daily
  • Journalism

• I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Earth
  • Philosophy
  • Forces

• Unhealed Babylon is now sentenced to destruction: the whole system - a system of systems - is rejected, and all of God's people not in sympathy with her false doctrines and practices are now called to separate themselves from her.

  

  Charles Taze Russell
  • People
  • God
  • Sympathy

• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • School
  • College

• At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

  

  Joseph Bruchac
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Dark

• I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.

  

  William P. Young
  • People
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