William Stringfellow Quotes

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

William Stringfellow

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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  • Stone
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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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  • Impossible
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• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
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• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Control
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• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
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• I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • World
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• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Culture
  • Learning
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• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
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• I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Running
  • Like
  • Woods

• She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness-so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Different
  • She
  • Girl

• 'What’s Hell?' inquired Wild-Eye. 'You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman?'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Dark
  • Gentleman

• I've worked for everything I have, but I want have everything that I worked for. I want to have what I can get.

  

  Nate Diaz

• Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light.

  

  Aurora
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sky

• What's cool about Matador is that everyone I've met there is just so chill and really into what they're doing. Everyone that works there, there's just such a lack of ego, and there's such a commitment to what they're doing. They all like each other.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Cool
  • Commitment
  • Ego

• A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • House

• I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I've met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Emotional

• I totally support women working on their relationships, their careers, or whatever they need to do to be healthy moms, but it's also important to realize you may not have as much time as you think.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Time
  • Important
  • Women

• Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Space

• Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

  

  William Stringfellow
  • Money
  • Poor