Langdon Gilkey Quotes

#1. There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well - being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

Matthieu Ricard

#2. I put my arms around your waist and pull you in, holding you, letting you know I'm with you. I tell you that you can do this, that you're strong enough and brave enough. I tell you that you can do anything. So you nod and agree to jump.

Jessica Park

#3. I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

Francis Collins

#4. Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#5. Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#6. Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

Kara Swisher

#7. Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#8. There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

Peter Jackson

#9. The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#10. So long as you fight in the darkness, you stand in the light.

Sabaa Tahir

#11. Do you know why it's so hard to solve a Redneck murder? 'Cause there's no dental records and all the DNA is the same.

Jeff Foxworthy

#12. Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#13. Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Eddi Reader

#14. She pulled the phone back to look at her photo, then, drawn by its ruthless intensity, kissed the image. Her lips left semen smears on the screen. Commodity fetishism at its finest.

David Cronenberg