"I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very……" — Karen Armstrong
"I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle."
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105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong has 105 quotes on this site.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
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More Impatient Quotes
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one of 284 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
— John Banville
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown…
— James Buchan
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When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can…
— George Carlin
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I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be…
— Lynda Carter
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but…
— William Ellery Channing
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Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
— Robin Cousins
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Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
— Rama Swami
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.
— Drake
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers…
— Rajneesh
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