Walter Wink Quotes

Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

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• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Want
  • You
  • Question

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Laugh
  • Cry
  • Pertinacity

• 'This is my story, this is my song If you feel it, muthafucka, you can't go wrong to the screw-face niggaz, whatch you on? Get off that, get a goal and focus dawg'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Song
  • Focus

• One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.

  

  Bernice King
  • America

• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Simple

• But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Work

• Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • School
  • Theatre

• A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

  

  Patti Smith

• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Life
  • Father
  • Challenge

• Climate change is real.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Real

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Today

• 'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Trying
  • Challenges
  • Evidence

• It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Taken
  • Dark
  • Easy

• Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

  

  Walter Wink
  • Trying
  • Jesus
  • Seeds