Quotes About Cross-cultural Understanding

#1. When it comes, you'll be dreaming that you don't need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it's part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. Self-denial is a necessary aspect of a Christian life; that the cross is central to human understanding; and that, without the atonement, every one of us would stand forever in the role of Judas.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. I didn't have any intention of releasing any of the tracks I made.

Gold Panda

#4. A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

D. A. Carson

#5. We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

Stevie Wonder

#6. To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Richard Paul Evans

#7. There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.

Dee Wallace

#8. George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.

Christopher Isherwood

#9. She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

Alicia G. Ruggieri

#10. Cheese, where you takes liquid from a cow lady's business parts, mix it with a bit o' juices from a baby cow's fourth stomach and then let it grow all fuzzy-moldy for a few years, eh?

Jeffery Russell

#11. The great error of nearly all studies of war ... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics ...

Simone Weil

#12. The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Conor Oberst

#13. All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love ...

John Of The Cross

#14. The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

Vita Sackville-West

#15. If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Charlie Chaplin

#16. If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

Max Gunther

#17. It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Nicholas Stern

#18. Should we hold back from loving people because we carry the wounds of a few?

Sydney Scrogham

#19. If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Deborah J. Levine

#20. We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

C.J. Mahaney

#21. The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

John Of The Cross

#22. Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Edmund Burke

#23. America is the greatest country in the whole world.

Chris Rock

#24. I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

Tom Scholz

#25. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.

Erin Meyer

#26. We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

David Hawkins