Thomas Merton Quotes

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Thomas Merton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

Topics

CompassionLivingAwarenessWhole

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

Jenny Slate

DayMeFreeFeelComedyImportant

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Andrea Corr

ToleranceDiscomfortHigh

I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

Megan Nicole

FearPeopleMeThinkThinkingKnow

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

Robert McChesney

CompetitionYouGotLicenseOnce

When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony.

Michael Imperioli

PictureYouBurnBloodMafiaTake

This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.

Stephen Frears

LearningJobPeopleBlackDoing

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Smokey Robinson

MyselfSongPotentialYouWantEven

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Roger Rosenblatt

YouWrongThreeNeedSomethingThen

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Robert Fulghum

LifeKnowNeedKindergartenLearned

I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are needed in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy. This must include changing our government's long-term fiscal path, which is unsustainable.

Mick Mulvaney

PathGovernmentBelieveProblemKnow

One of the wonderful things about 'Jason Bourne' and that franchise is getting to work the same people sporadically and over the course of many years. I'm not so keen on having to get to know a whole group of people.

Julia Stiles

WorkPeopleKnowGroupSameOver

Class still matters in Britain today.

Johnny Vegas

TodayClassMattersStillBritain

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