Edith Stein Quotes

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Edith Stein

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Culture
  • Alone
  • Thought

• British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Society
  • Never
  • Imperialism

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Always
  • See
  • London

• I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Love
  • Acting

• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • Like
  • End
  • Said

• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Place
  • Caring
  • Surroundings

• I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Beauty
  • Lady
  • Admit

• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Learn

• It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Rude

• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Man
  • Enjoy
  • Disdain

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Nature
  • Search
  • Opinions

• The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Form
  • Sake
  • Reproach

• It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Today

• In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

  

  Harvey Gantt
  • President
  • Dreams
  • Re-election

• The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • True
  • Identity

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Free
  • Constitution
  • Opinions

• The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Needs
  • Need
  • Nation