Richard Rohr Quotes

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I'm very humble.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Humble
  • Very

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Know
  • Short

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Man
  • Best
  • Railroad

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Action

• There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Truck

• And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Mother
  • Thoughtful
  • Hilarious

• I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Bad

• In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

  

  Anne Boyd
  • Romantic

• When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Up
  • She

• It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

  

  Christopher Paolini
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

  

  George Osborne
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• I really, really love what I do, and there's nothing I love more than getting on stage and playing for an audience or working on a part, getting in front of the camera, and meeting all the cool people I get to meet, and going all the cool places I get to go.

  

  Drake Bell
  • People
  • Cool

• I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Control
  • Fall
  • Cards

• I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Religious
  • Mystery
  • Believers