Paul Elie Quotes

In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer. ~ Paul Elie

We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours. ~ Paul Elie

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not. ~ Flannery O'Connor

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way? ~ Paul Elie

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress. ~ Rand Paul

A magnificent restoration awaits us ... Christ comes in judgment; then restoration. ~ Paul P. Enns

Paul DiMaggio (1997) has looked at the interaction between cognition and social life. He notes that under everyday circumstances, people organize information via automatic cognition, using "culturally available schemata - knowledge structures that represent objects of events and provide default assumptions about their characteristics, relationships, and entailments under conditions of incomplete information". ~ Wendy Griswold

That's quite all right, I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux. ~ Paul Murray

I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144] ~ Diane Ackerman

The recent trading environment has felt something like walking into a place and having a sense that something is wrong and dangerous but not knowing exactly what will happen or when. "QE Infinity" has so distorted the prices of stocks and bonds that nobody can possibly determine what the investing landscape would look like, or what the condition of the economy and financial system would be, in the absence of Fed bond-buying. ~ Paul Singer

Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose, ~ Paul Auster

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on. ~ Elie Wiesel

Don't go to business school. ~ Paul Hawken

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career. ~ Paul Henderson

The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them. Instead of that, many writers live off this sickness. In many cases modern literature is a cancer of words ... There is nothing more deplorable than the literary practice which, I believe, is called poetic prose and which consists of using words for the obscure harmonics which reosund about them and which are made up of vague meanings which are in contradiction with the clear meaning ... That is not all: we are living in an age of mystifications. Some are fundamental ones which are due to the structure of society; some are secondary. At any rate, the social order today rests upon the mystification of consciousness, as does disorder as well. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value. ~ Paul David Tripp

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions. ~ Paul Auster

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. ~ Paul Broca

Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one. ~ Paul Tudor Jones

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words. ~ Paul Claudel

Thus 2t Grams confronts us with the same interpretive dilemma as the one in The Wings of the Dove: is the suicidal sacrificial gesture a true ethical act or not? In contrast to Wings, the answer here is yes: there is no narcissistic staging of one's death at work when Paul shoots himself, no manipulative strategy of using one's death as a gift destined to secretly sabotage what it appears to make possible. ~ Slavoj Zizek

How can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens? ~ Paul Wellstone

There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve ... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience. ~ Paul Martin

From what I've seen, I think most people want to do the right thing...they just need a tremendous amount of encouragement before they actually do it. ~ Michael Paul Michaud

Secret societies ... like the Skulls or the Free Masons?"
"What do you know about them?" he asked, feeling me out.
"Limited. I've seen a couple of movies with Johnny Depp and Paul Walker a while back. They're societies that have high influence over things like the American and foreign governments. ~ Nicole Gulla

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. ~ Paul Cezanne

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that. ~ Paul Weller

After a while size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on $10,000 or $100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference. ~ Paul Tudor Jones

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. ~ Paul Valery

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

In women everything is heart, even the head. ~ Jean Paul

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. ~ Paul Ryan

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between. ~ Paul Davies