Quotes About Cultural Adaptation

#1. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.

Timothy Keller

#2. When she returned to the office, she found that Mr Jasper Cohen had gone abruptly on holiday. His son had been killed in Spain - he had been shot, near Madrid, rather more than a year before; a friend of his had written, on returning safe to England, to tell his father so.

Doris Lessing

#3. Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.

Katherine Pine

#4. People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

Danny Bonaduce

#5. Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

Jonathan Haidt

#6. People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Donald Knuth

#7. There will be time enough some day to work less.

Pierce Brosnan

#8. I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

Newt Gingrich

#9. I knew from catechism classes and other conversations that people who hadn't grown up with a loving father sometimes struggled to understand a loving God.

Reggie Anderson

#10. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

John Waters

#11. Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

Henry Ford

#12. From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Gordon Smith

#13. Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.

Sarra Manning

#14. Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

Marc Jacobs

#16. Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile.

William Goldman