Elaine Pagels Quotes

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

Elaine Pagels

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• When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Me
  • Rock

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Engineering

• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Success

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Money
  • Think

• You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Present

• That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Actress

• I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Think
  • Favorite
  • Songwriting

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• One of the hardest things is to create hope.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hope
  • Create
  • Hardest

• I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Old
  • Three

• I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Responsibility
  • Thought

• The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Born
  • Young
  • Old

• Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Space

• 'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Control
  • Hurt
  • Enemy

• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• I enjoy going to fashion shows and I enjoy seeing what's new and fantastic but I just don't understand how fur is necessarily fashionable. I just think it's terrible to harm living animals all in the name of vanity... it's completely unnecessary.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Fashion

• No we won't - no we won't break the law Sharon.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Law

• You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Winning
  • Marathon
  • Nipples

• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  

  William Shatner
  • Today
  • Joy
  • Mankind

• The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

  

  Carl Hilty
  • People
  • World
  • Soul

• What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

  

  Elaine Pagels