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Ivan Illich Quotes

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 4, 1926 - December 2, 2002

Topics

God Prayer Man Distance Greater

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Sad Beautiful Solitude You Piano

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Quality Effort Brainy Result Never

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

Good Creative People America Nobody

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

Family Myself Me Class Ballet Took

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

Lorene Scafaria

Work Better Help You Movies Watch

I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.

Christie Brinkley

Love Beauty Heart Soul People Crazy

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

God Myself Think Go Done More

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

Chief Chief Executive Executive Times

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

Life Mother Time Impossible End Go

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.

Power People Control Political Seize

Islamists and their sympathizers hate us, and they will not stop hating us until we convert to ancient Islam. There is no middle ground or accommodation.

Hate Stop Islam Will Ground Middle

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

Work Ride People Night Holidays

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