Henri Nouwen Quotes

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Henri Nouwen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: January 24, 1932 - September 21, 1996

Topics

LearningWaitingWaitMoreHimWhom

I think I get my alone time when I have to go fly and do a work trip. After work's done, I go check into my hotel, and I get to have a few hours to myself to order room service and just be quiet and silent.

Jessie James Decker

WorkAloneTimeMyselfServiceFly

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.

Jerry Seinfeld

WalkPeopleMeHotelDoingLook

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

DebateImportantThe Most Important

I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.

Meghan Markle

TravelWantAlways

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

Jeffrey Kluger

GoodCulturePastNewEverything

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Steve Earle

LeisureWorkaholicThingPasses

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

Tom Reiss

LateAfricaJewishFranceJews

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

DayMeEverDawned

My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like The Fray, I'm a massive fan of them, and The Killers.

Louis Tomlinson

MusicAmericanPersonalMoreThings

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

Julia Hartz

GoodDaughterHonorFeelChooseShe

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

Chris Van Hollen

TodayJobEyeYouLookSituation

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Conor McPherson

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