Dan Barker Quotes
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!Dan Barker
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
Ban Ki-moon -
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn -
I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
Gail Collins -
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde -
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.
Nathan Deal -
I'm a gun owner.
Patrick Leahy -
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou -
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
David Morrissey -
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
Alvar Aalto -
Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
Pablo Neruda -
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. Forster
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When you look at women and what's sexy right now, I feel like we're finally back to a curvaceous healthy body rather than just skinny with fake boobs.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau -
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain -
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!
Dan Barker