God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things w...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had master...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the junctu...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance fro...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spiri...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
Therefore, we must be saved by hope....
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attrib...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty o...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I c...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow t...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice make...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity w...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religi...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Forgiveness is the final form of love.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence i...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm
REINHOLD NIEBUHR I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men
REINHOLD NIEBUHR I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag.
REINHOLD MESSNER put his brother’s boot on the table
REINHOLD MESSNER Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complac...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maint...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true o...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR You've changed so much. I guess that's what happens. I wish you knew how much you changed me. I wond...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to de...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Over time, our only chance at safety will depend on not turning the mountains into Disneyland.
REINHOLD MESSNER We attract tourists to these regions where we can't guarantee their security,
REINHOLD MESSNER Today nobody (is) using leather shoes. Only in this expedition we used this shoe.
REINHOLD MESSNER It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the thi...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL