Brian D. McLaren Quotes
We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor — a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father — someone with whom we have an essential relationship.
Brian D. McLaren
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
Frances Fisher
I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
Adam Ferrara
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
Maggie Carey
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
Kate Christensen
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
Francesca Annis
Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.
Loretta Napoleoni
You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
Ian Dunbar
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.
Drew Gilpin Faust
People who choose to cut their parents out completely are super brave, but it's complicated and for me, I'd rather give the relationship a little bit of a try, however imperfect it is.
Nicole J. Georges
The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.
Edward Zwick
We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor — a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father — someone with whom we have an essential relationship.
Brian D. McLaren
