Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Quotes

We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

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• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Year
  • Run

• I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Free
  • Young

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Career
  • While
  • Chose

• Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Work
  • Words

• I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Company
  • Accountability

• One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

  

  Cara Black
  • Power
  • Movement
  • Fitness

• Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Beauty
  • Attractive
  • Sublime

• I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stage

• I never had a kid before, and it's the best. It's something you're privileged to be part of, and my favorite things in the world are my kid and wife.

  

  David Eigenberg
  • World
  • Wife

• When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • People
  • Changing
  • Mentality

• We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.

  

  Randy Pausch

• We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • People
  • Sorrow
  • Comfort