If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.


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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g...
N. T. WRIGHT
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we...
N. T. WRIGHT
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discip...
N. T. WRIGHT
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work,...
N. T. WRIGHT
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'bein...
N. T. WRIGHT
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
N. T. WRIGHT
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in ou...
N. T. WRIGHT
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER