Edmund Clowney Quotes

There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.

Edmund Clowney

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• I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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  • Young
  • Great Things

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Will

• Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
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  • Know
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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Love
  • Think
  • Person

• I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Opportunities
  • Scenes
  • Steal

• I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Like
  • Dance
  • Things

• Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Country
  • Attention

• We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Rich

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Up
  • Live
  • Drinking

• We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Sun
  • Intuition

• At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Comfortable
  • How

• There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thought
  • Child
  • Parent

• You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Believe

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good
  • Society
  • Wise

• There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Society
  • Difference
  • Direction