David Steindl-Rast Quotes
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.
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I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.
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I know that on LAPD they have used psychics. They used it on the Hillside strangler case. I'm not sure on the Richard Ramirez case. I can't say one thing or another about it. I've read about it. I really don't have a lot to say about if it works or if it doesn't.
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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
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Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.
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Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.
