Walter Brueggemann Quotes
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
Umberto Eco -
I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
Rachel McAdams -
My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.
Eddie Mathews -
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
Elia Kazan -
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
Vivienne Westwood -
It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.
Confucius
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In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.
William Beebe -
I rather be divisive than boring. The last thing I want to be is a bowl of sugar free vanilla pudding, it's not something you necessarily hate but it's not something you ask for. I'd rather be something people passionately care about one way or another than be kind of in the middle.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.
Sandra Bullock -
A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
Martin Luther -
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
Stephen Carter -
I promised myself that we’d have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.
Bella Andre
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Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.
Nick Lampson -
I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.
Tadao Ando -
We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.
Walter Brueggemann