Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
-
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
-
People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
-
I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
-
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-
I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
-
There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
-
It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
-
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
-
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
-
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
-
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
-
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
-
It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
-
Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
-
You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
-
Tara: No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?
-
We need a regime change in this country.… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
-
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
-
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
-
The problem comes when readers take these two accounts and combine them into one overarching account, in which Jesus says, does, and experiences everything narrated in both Gospels. When that is done, the messages of both Mark and Luke get completely lost and glossed over. Jesus is no longer in deep agony, as in Mark (since he is confident as in Luke), and he is no longer calm and in control as in Luke (since he is in despair as in Mark). He is somehow all things at once. Also
-
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.
