Bernard Lonergan Quotes

Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

Bernard Lonergan

• Reality
• Faith
• Relations
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• I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Take

• My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Bad
  • Play
  • Mood

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Success
  • Always
  • Policy

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Family
  • Parents

• My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

  

  T-Pain
  • Bad
  • You
  • Me

• As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Gold
  • Forget
  • God Is

• I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn't be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • World
  • Reality
  • Political

• If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a hospital in Congo. It started in 1997, and 10 years later I was able to unveil the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named after my mother, in my hometown outside of Kinshasa. It was such a blessing.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Mother
  • Basketball

• Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  

  Dudley Nichols
  • Up

• Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Reality
  • Faith
  • Relations