Andrew Greeley Quotes

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

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LeadershipChurchTryingIceLost

I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

Andre Dubus III

WorkSonWeatherColdWarmSaturday

I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.

John Mulaney

PlansLivingMinuteMakeAnymore

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

Ann Wilson

ExperienceDayPeopleIdeasWorld

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

Angeles Mastretta

MyselfYourselfPeopleThinkLoved

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

Ruth Rendell

I AmPeopleThinkKnowWantKeep

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Michael O'Brien

StyleImaginationMediaPowerfulShe

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

Jon Ossoff

WorkCorruptionHillYearsSawFive

Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So I find it easiest to just put on mineral veil and a little mascara and call it a day. I use Physician's Formula and Bare Minerals every day of my life.

Christian Serratos

LifeBeautyDayJobMeMakeup

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Craig Charles

DieYouMove OnStagnantEvolve

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

Chris Stapleton

DoingEasyCountryTryWriteWell

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

Arthur Henderson

FearPowerMyselfPeaceWarWorld

I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

Annabella Sciorra

PeopleMeSecretsComfortableAlways

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