Karl Lehmann Quotes

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Die
  • Brave

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Music
  • American
  • Parents

• The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Lost
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Long
  • Face
  • Head

• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

  

  Rain
  • Win
  • Criticism
  • Stronger

• Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Process
  • Being
  • Healing

• What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I could have gone on flying through space forever.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Space
  • Forever
  • Flying

• I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • College
  • English
  • Try

• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Up
  • Husband
  • Italian

• John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

  

  Colm Toibin

• There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

  

  Jay Weatherill
  • Different
  • Future
  • Past

• I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Work
  • Sunday
  • Weekend

• I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Vision

• Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Joy
  • Human Life

• Starting is half the battle.

  

  Yoo Young-jae B.A.P
  • Battle
  • Starting

• The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failing
  • Starting

• The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Three

• If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Earth
  • Perfect

• Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

  

  Karl Lehmann
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  • Participation