Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) Quotes
The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.
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Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
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It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.
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Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
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And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
