Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rohr

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.

Richard Rohr

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

Richard Rohr

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Richard Rohr

Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.

Richard Rohr

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

Richard Rohr

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Richard LaGravenese

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Richard Kiel

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

Richard Krajicek

I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker

Richard Krajicek

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

Richard Lamm

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Richard Lamm

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

Richard Lamm

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Richard L. Evans

May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."

Richard L. Evans

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Tucker Max

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

Tucker Max

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

Tucker Carlson

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

Tucker Carlson

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.

Tucker Carlson

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Tucker Carlson

I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

Tucker Carlson

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

Tucker Carlson

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Tucker Carlson

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Tucker Carlson

I try to tell the truth.

Tucker Carlson

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

Tucker Carlson

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

Tucker Carlson

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

Tullian Tchividjian

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

Tullian Tchividjian

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

Tullian Tchividjian

I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.

Tullian Tchividjian

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.