Richard Rohr Quotes

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

Richard Rohr

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• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• I don't care what other people are doing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Care
  • Doing

• A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Just
  • Economics

• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Surround Yourself

• I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Character
  • Mistake

• English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • English
  • Class

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Attitude

• A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • People
  • Home
  • Book

• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • People
  • Catholic
  • Disappointment