Paradigmatic Quotes

#1. For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

Miroslav Volf

#2. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

Camille Paglia

#3. I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

Stanley Hauerwas

#4. The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.

Joan C. Williams

#5. Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Tony Judt

#6. For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Meir Soloveichik

#7. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Stephen Mitchell

#8. We must praise God or live in unreality and poverty. We cannot merely believe in our minds that he is loving or wise or great. We must praise him for those things - and praise him to others - if we are to move beyond abstract knowledge to heart-changing engagement.

Timothy Keller

#9. In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

John Cale

#10. But you were the hero, weren't you? You were the one who made me brave when I might have given up.

Carrie Anne Noble

#11. Andrew put a finger to the underside of Neil's chin and forced Neil's head up until they were looking at each other. "On that day you're not going to run. You're going to think about what I promised you and you're going to make the call. Tell me you understand." Neil's

Nora Sakavic

#12. Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.

Kevin Bacon

#13. You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Drew Barrymore

#14. Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

Lobsang Rampa

#15. Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he's over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is about him. And freedom is a process that happens inside a relationship with him. Then all that stuff you feel churnin' around inside will start to work its way out.

Wm. Paul Young

#16. The physical healed quickly, but those of the spirit ran deep, and in most cases, could only be concealed. Wounds of the spirit may scab over, but they never fully heal.

J.K. Swift

#17. Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#18. Creativity is divine.

A.D. Posey