Arthur Erickson Quotes

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Same

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  

  Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Art
  • Learning
  • Painting

• It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly called a ‘scientific’ approach. You will have to be able to have a chance of feeling that the interpretation you give is a beautiful one, or that you get a beautiful response from the patient. This aesthetic element of beauty makes a very difficult situation tolerable.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Important
  • Chance
  • Situation

• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Long
  • Money

• Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Confidence

• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weight

• Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • World
  • Today
  • Improvement