William Cavanaugh Quotes

#1. I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Patti Smith

#2. The artificial preservation of local identities is essential to tourism. In other words, the tourist represents both the attempt to transcend all borders and identities and the simultaneous attempt to fix the identities of non-Western subjects within its gaze.

William T. Cavanaugh

#3. Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's origins and
destiny. There is an implicit anthropology and an implicit theology in every economics.

William T. Cavanaugh

#4. I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)

William Cavanaugh

#5. To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.

William T. Cavanaugh

#6. Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity.
It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics.

Toba Beta

#7. Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

Jamie Oliver

#8. Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies.

Alex Newell

#9. The way you buy has a lot to do with the way you worship and who you worship and what you worship.

William T. Cavanaugh

#10. I do not employ tricks when I attack.

Max Immelmann

#11. There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

Carolina Herrera

#12. Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

Alan Cohen

#13. Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

Ruth Ozeki

#14. Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

Domhnall Gleeson

#15. Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

Eric Ries

#16. ( ... ) sensation I've never felt before, bites of cold, hard steel that definitely didn't come with the birthday package. He's pierced. Holy shit. it's always the quiet ones, isn't it?

C.M. Stunich