"I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and……" — Karen Armstrong
"I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness."
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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 have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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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 Gregarious Quotes
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I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For…
— Jose Mujica
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of…
— Northrop Frye
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I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people…
— Gerard Butler
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I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just…
— Tab Hunter
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The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter,…
— Phyllis McGinley
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
— Peter O'Toole
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
— Norman MacCaig
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The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of…
— Ivor Novello
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Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a…
— Burton Rascoe
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In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for…
— Edmund Gosse
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Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
— George Orwell
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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