John Shelby Spong Quotes

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

John Shelby Spong

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FutureHopeTomorrowPeopleYouNew

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

John Cleese

ChangePeopleThinkFriendsYouNew

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

Robert Harris

TimePerspectivePastWritingDouble

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

Tony Shalhoub

PeriodDrawn

I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.

Riteish Deshmukh

ThinkEasyYouFindSometimesKind

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel de Montaigne

CommunicationAloneMindMeThought

Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.

Missy Elliott

WomanI AmMeStrongPushDown

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Loretta Lynn

SadMountainsGrowing UpSadnessYou

A lot of the things I loved the most growing up were, on the surface, kind of challenging or impenetrable. I loved Andy Kaufman, and half his shows, people would walk out in a rage. I love punk rock, which is notoriously music that doesn't always sound very inviting or appealing but, I think, unquestionably has the most heart, the most integrity.

Chris Gethard

LoveIntegrityMusicHeartWalk

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.

Chelsea Handler

GoodGreatJobPretendEven

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

Brenda Lee

IntelligentIrreverentVeryJohn

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?

Brian Posehn

MyselfBestWritingStoryYouKnow

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

LoveAloneHatredLittleDisgust

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