At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters. — Tommy Morrison Copy Share Image
I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk:… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are… — Carl Nielsen Copy Share Image
I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland.… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mom tried to adopt a tradition of building a gingerbread house, but it failed miserably. — Antonia Lofaso Copy Share Image
One of my biggest goals in writing the music for 'Fantastic Beasts' was to create memorable melodies. J.K. Rowling's world has always… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
You know the slow-motion walking shot in 'Reservoir Dogs?' That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing… — Tom Folsom Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we… — William James Copy Share Image
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