Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.Barbara Brown Taylor
Quotes to Explore
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
Daniel Boulud -
Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
Radhanath Swami -
Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
T. J. Miller -
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
Salman Rushdie -
For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
Kage Baker -
Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig -
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
Tariq Ramadan -
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
D. H. Lawrence -
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde -
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
Wendell Berry -
A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
Kate Winslet
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美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策,势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。
Mao Zedong -
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
Matt Cameron Pearl Jam -
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
Bill Paxton -
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
Benjamin F. Wade -
Paris has always shown a lot of love towards my music, and I am very grateful.
Kevin Morby -
Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
Lex Luger -
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
Paul Wolfowitz -
I love 'Latina'! You guys have always been so supportive of me and my career. Now I have my family, and it's just awesome.
Christine Flores -
Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
Saib Tabrizi -
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
Barbara Brown Taylor