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 wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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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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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
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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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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.
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Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.
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I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
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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.
