Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.

Stanley Hauerwas

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GodSinWayAbilityMayClear

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.

Meg Wolitzer

ChangeTimePeopleLookingMeaning

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

John Katzman

TrustFreeBelieveBetterPlans

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Ann Brashares

TeenYoungBecomeMoreBlurredSome

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Ann Beattie

PeopleNameNowEvenCorrect

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Steven Spielberg

DaySundayTwiceRatherThanDirect

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

Tom Mison

PeopleMeGameBetterSomeoneYou

The command-and-control systems, the war rooms, the methods of information gathering, and the technology of the pilotless aircraft, or drones, that now serve the Americans and their allies were all, in large part, developed in Israel.

Ronen Bergman

TechnologyWarInformationGathering

I am just scared to death of online dating.

Michaela Watkins

DeathDatingI AmScaredJustAm

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

Joyce Brothers

PowerBestPeopleForgetTryNever

The world should have one champion.

Joseph Parker

WorldChampionShould

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Jonathan Haidt

MoralSocialSocial IssuesEconomic

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Del Shannon

YouLoseCareerTryWriteUp

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