Walter Brueggemann Quotes

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

Walter Brueggemann

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Process
  • Negative

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Bad
  • Worry
  • Name

• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • You
  • Best
  • Voice

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Death

• ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.

  

  Lee Child
  • People
  • Power
  • Earth

• I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Trying

• Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Financial

• I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Writing

• The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Real
  • School
  • Beautiful

• You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Money
  • Happy

• The medium is the message.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Perspective

• The paths of Europe and Russia are seriously diverging and will remain so for a long time ... probably for decades to come.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Time
  • Long
  • Europe

• If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

  

  Denis Waitley

• To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

  

  Confucius
  • Confidence
  • Pride
  • Discover

• The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Hurt
  • Images
  • Resistance