Richard Rohr Quotes
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.
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Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.
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. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.
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Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
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I'm always fascinated by the dedicated monitors in a hospital. Non-standard cables, funny button shapes, odd LED colors, and lots of extra controls.
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
