Bart Ehrman Quotes
Collective memory, is essentially a reconstruction of the past that adapts the image of historical facts to the beliefs and spiritual needs of the present.Bart Ehrman
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
Isaac Hayes -
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
Hamza Yusuf -
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry -
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
Gary Hamel -
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald -
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
Edmund Morgan
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
Rachael Taylor -
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
Wale -
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp -
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb -
I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. Flay
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
Tawni O'Dell -
With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
Ella Mai -
I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
Kylie Minogue -
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.
Gaston Bachelard -
But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
Oswald Chambers -
The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
S. C. Gwynne
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
Oscar Wilde -
Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.
Uzodinma Iweala -
If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.
Brad Stine -
As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
Apolo Ohno -
Collective memory, is essentially a reconstruction of the past that adapts the image of historical facts to the beliefs and spiritual needs of the present.
Bart Ehrman