Colin Gunton Quotes
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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I lost my eyesIn east wind skiesHere's where I've criedWhere I've triedWhere God and the Tendaberry riseWhere Quakers and revolutionariesJoin for life
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.
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In the night, I hear 'em talk. Coldest story ever told. Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul.
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I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
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I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.
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I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
