“I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.” SportsRecordsEventsListeningSittingStandingCrowdsConcertsSporting Events Author:Chuck Klosterman
“In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.” SongCultureNamesTelevisionTaughtListeningStandingPopsTitlesReliefBreastsPlatesPop SongFuture Love Author:David Byrne
“We can preach the Gospel all day long, but that won't win souls. That won't win the hearts of the people. We can talk, try to theorize, theologize, reason, argue, debate, and spend time trying to prove that Jesus lived, but that won't win a heart. How often do we see the religious mindset that believes that the more Scripture quoting, the more yelling, the more hell fire and brimstone preaching, the greater the chance to win someone over for the Kingdom? Likewise, how often do we see people sitting or standing there listening in stone-cold silence or indifference?” PeopleTryingBelieveHeartLongSoulReasonJesusWinningReligiousChanceSilenceHellFireGreaterListeningColdProveSittingStandingStonesMindsetArguingDebateScriptureKingdomsIndifferencePreachingEnd TimesSpend TimeYellingStanding ThereQuotingHell FireStone Cold Book:Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life Source: Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life
“There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation, for our right to control our bodies. But at the same time as we're doing that, we have to also be fighting for the rights of trans women and standing up for them and making sure that we're always providing platforms for them and listening to their concerns in solidarity.” ThinkingWorldBodyFightingThreeRightsListeningConcernStandingBillionsLiberationPlatformsProvidingSolidarityTrans Author:Eve Ensler
“Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.” PresidentPowerfulPrinciplesVirtueSuccessfulListeningSucceedSkillsOfficeHighestWeaknessStandingOppositesCampaignsCirclesCompromiseCombinationOpponents Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'” ThinkingLittlesStoriesListeningDespairStandingCrowdsTinyMaliceHints Author:Ayelet Waldman
“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.” KnowsWayDoneCoursesLanguageWaitingAnswersRoomsListeningOfficeWasteStandingTheaterTrainBoxesSpendingSeatsBuyingChairsSundayAfternoonRoutesLecturesConvenientDentistUneasyBox OfficeBalconiesWaiting RoomsQueriesSunday AfternoonsLining Up Book:The Plague Source: The Plague