William Sloane Coffin Quotes

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 1, 1924 - April 12, 2006

Topics

LoveTruthWorldSmallDangerous

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

Joe Haldeman

ThinkBackSometimesThemeGoing

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

Jesse L. Martin

WantRentForeverLast

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

NatureMeToughTransitionDirecting

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

John Lewis

GoodPeopleFeelAmericaFindYoung

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

Trisha Yearwood

LoveWinSongYouGoingThen

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

Tom Hodgkinson

WorkMotherWomenSonFreedomGrind

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Roger McGuinn

WorkYouSaidOverYesOut

I've had really hard struggles in my life.

Rob Liefeld

LifeMy LifeHardStrugglesReally

It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

Michelle Bachelet

WorkFamilyLoveWomenBalanceFind

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Cheri Huber

WishEnjoyYouStopNowRight

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

WishMy OwnMoreNeverI WishOwn

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Pippa Middleton

TogetherWhiteSilverWhyChristmas

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