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.Colin Gunton
Quotes to Explore
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I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer -
I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
Dan Hill -
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.
Carl Sandburg -
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!
Jack Ma -
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.
Felicity Kendal -
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.
Walter Cronkite
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
Harmony Korine -
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.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
G. Edward Griffin -
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.
Saint Augustine -
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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
Warren Christopher
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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.
Orson Scott Card -
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
Sam Harris -
My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I’ve lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.
Justin Bieber -
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.
Andrea Bocelli -
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
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'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.
Jerry Jeff Walker -
I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
Shania Twain -
The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel.... A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant.
Pat Buchanan -
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Daniel Dennett -
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
Chuck Yeager -
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.
Colin Gunton