Richard Rohr Quotes
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record.
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I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.
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Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.
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In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
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When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
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The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.
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Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
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There were two major differences between how people talked about memories of positive versus traumatic experiences: how the memories were organized, and their physical reactions to them.
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I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
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If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
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Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.
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I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
