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Paul Ricoeur Quotes

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: February 27, 1913 - May 20, 2005

Topics

Problem Always Because Been Proceeds

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Faith Death Man Honor Lost Dead

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

Father Parents Me Deep Intellectual

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Women Live People Artist Everything

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

Mitch McConnell

Power Mistake Revolution Think Own

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

Time Past Sound Because Like Use

When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

Family Home Mom Doing Normal Things

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Wife Me American Accent Foreign

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

Me Artist Right Always Everyone Who

As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

Love Cool Cheese Want Kid Kids

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Moment Chaos Control Believe Horror

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce

Good Mother Sleep Divorce You Know

I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who'd been screened. For any comic trying to make something of themselves, that was like hitting triple 7s-jackpot.

Trying Permanent Something Chosen

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