David Edward Jenkins Quotes

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

David Edward Jenkins

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In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.

Jesse Ball

LifePeopleTryingConversationSay

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

John W. Snow

GoodEconomyShapePrettyGlobal

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

Amory Lovins

WorldResourcesMakeSecureCultural

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

Rod Stewart

ThinkCharityYouBackKnowMore

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

ResponsibilityGovernmentBabyEnd

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

Michelle Bachelet

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WWE is like showbiz boot camp.

Dean Ambrose

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Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Alice McDermott

RealityLanguageTraditionTaskTool

I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'

Sheryl Lee

TimePeopleMeYouNeverUp

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

Norman Lear

MarriagePeopleMeStrongYouKnow

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Nicole Richie

TimeTogetherBrotherSisterYou

The truth is our friend.

Ken Cuccinelli

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