Richard Rohr Quotes
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
Richard Rohr
Quotes to Explore
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes
I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
La Monte Young
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
Larry Ellison
I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.
Uri Geller
If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.
Victoria Osteen
You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
Elayne Boosler
My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
Elayne Boosler
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Berkeley Breathed
The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.
Charles S. Maier
It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was a Russian in Vienna for fifty years, then Austrian, then a citizen of the Reich, and then stateless. Elisabeth kept Dutch citizenship in England for fifty years. And Iggie was Austrian, then American, then an Austrian living in Japan.
You assimilate, but you need somewhere else to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private.
Edmund de Waal
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde