Coleman Barks Quotes

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

Coleman Barks

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• I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • America
  • Nothing
  • Congress

• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Creation
  • Now
  • Foot

• Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Children
  • Control

• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Nature
  • Running
  • Water

• When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Up
  • Blood
  • Media

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Want
  • Best
  • Poetry

• I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Change
  • Day
  • Year

• History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Evidence

• I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Work
  • Heart

• President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.' Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • House
  • Trump

• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heaven

• It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • World
  • Guy

• I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Play

• The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Control
  • Self
  • Names

• As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.

  

  Karl Mannheim
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Ideas

• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

  

  William H. Hastie
  • Planning
  • Social
  • Hopeful

• The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Social
  • Valuable
  • Religions