Basil Pennington Quotes
We can make a practice of letting go of unnecessary negative thoughts and feelings (our prayer word– a quick flight to the center, while the thought is allowed to float away– can be used to advantage in this) and cultivating joyful, positive ones.
Quotes to Explore
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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I'm a reporter – if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figuratives or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.
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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
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The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'
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My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.
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I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
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The simplest answer is to act.
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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
