Walter Brueggemann Quotes
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
Walter Brueggemann
Quotes to Explore
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Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
Kate Brown
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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I think the top leadership challenge issue in our world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population in the world and all the resource demands it places on the world and burgeoning populations in Africa and Asia that lack the resources to have a healthy, happy life.
Ronald Klain
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If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
Tom Shadyac
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We were fighting, scratching and clawing all year. At the end of the game, you had that feeling of 'Here we go again,' but we made the plays we needed to win the game.
Bob Stoops
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More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.
Ahad Ha'am
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I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.
Bruce Vilanch
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This is a society in which you are who you think you are. Nobody gives you your identity here, you have to reinvent yourself every day." He is right, I suspect, but I can't figure out how this is done. You just say what you are and everyone believes you? That seems like a confidence trick to me, and not one I think I can pull off. Still, somehow, invent myself I must. But how do I choose from identity options available all around me? I feel, once again, as I did when facing those ten brands of toothpaste - faint from excess, paralysed by choice.
Eva Hoffman
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Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
George Vaillant
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
Rene Girard
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Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
Walter Brueggemann
