Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945

Topics

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I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte sisters, and Daphne du Maurier.

Anjelica Huston

LoveDawnUpMustSistersFemale

You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body.

Tracey Gold

LifeEnjoy LifeEnjoyYouBodyYour

Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.

Rush Limbaugh

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Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.

Monica Ali

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My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

Milana Vayntrub

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People think I'm kind and considerate and that I listen and evaluate and give each party a chance to talk. The public's perception of judges seems to be improving because of what I'm doing, and that makes me happy.

Joseph Wapner

HappyPeopleMePerceptionChance

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

Jasmine Guinness

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Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

Desmond Dekker

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The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Wole Soyinka

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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

William J. Clinton

HatePartyNowWayNeverRight

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Peter Zumthor

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But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

Peter Davison

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