When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.


Stanley Crouch

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...
STANLEY KUBRICK
There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistent...
ANDY STANLEY
Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.
ANDY STANLEY
There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carr...
CHARLES STANLEY
When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
PAUL STANLEY
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior....
CHARLES STANLEY
I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have no...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's ...
CHARLES STANLEY
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then you...
CHARLES STANLEY
On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
CHARLES STANLEY
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photogr...
STANLEY KUBRICK
When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and follo...
CHARLES STANLEY
God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
CHARLES STANLEY
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they ...
CHARLES STANLEY
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and mold...
CHARLES STANLEY
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things ma...
CHARLES STANLEY
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspirati...
PAUL STANLEY
Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures ...
PAUL STANLEY
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all ...
CHARLES STANLEY
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chape...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, eve...
STANLEY HO
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you n...
STANLEY BALDWIN
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n...
STANLEY CLARKE
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything ...
PAUL STANLEY
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buyin...
ANDY STANLEY
Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
ARTHUR STANLEY
To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catc...
PAUL STANLEY
If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be ...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine yea...
STANLEY DONEN
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing ...
STANLEY DONEN
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
PAUL STANLEY
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day wom...
CHARLES STANLEY
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would neve...
CHARLES STANLEY
I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any a...
PAUL STANLEY
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
CHARLES STANLEY
All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I ima...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of w...
CHARLES STANLEY
I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of ...
CHARLES STANLEY
All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every ...
ANDY STANLEY
From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions a...
STANLEY KUBRICK
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let H...
CHARLES STANLEY
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fe...
CHARLES STANLEY
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS