Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes

God is not an act of our imagination. We are an act of God's imagination.

Anthony Douglas Williams

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Value

• The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Character
  • Think
  • Fearless

• Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Power
  • Born

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Live
  • Day
  • Questions

• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Game
  • Law
  • Winning

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Industry

• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Ideas
  • U.S.

• I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Think
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain

• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Free
  • Control

• International cooperation is required to prevent anarchic situations developing and the unmasking of ever-present brutality and injustice that results from fear for survival in such situations.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Fear
  • Present
  • Survival

• If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Long

• God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

  

  Bob Riley
  • God
  • Country
  • Rock

• In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

  

  Francis Schaeffer
  • Age

• The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Character
  • Lies

• So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

  

  David C. Coates
  • People
  • Animal
  • Laughter

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• God is not an act of our imagination. We are an act of God's imagination.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • God
  • Imagination
  • Act