Famous Bernard Lonergan Quotes & Sayings

Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present. — Marie Lu

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream. — George Gordon Byron

Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows, from this view, that these ecological problems cannot be understood, let alone solved, without a careful understanding of our existing society and the irrationalities that dominate it. To make this point more concrete: economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations we face today - apart, to be sure, from those that are produced by natural catastrophes. — Murray Bookchin

I know what it feels like not to fit in, but trying to be like everyone around you doesn't work. — Lucy Monroe

One of the problems with the media covering this place is that there are stereotypes of news, one of which is "war rages" and the other is "peace dawns." And there isn't much in between. When I talk to foreign journalists, often they are gritting their teeth because they've been asked for a piece about how shops are reopening and restaurants are reopening and so forth - happy pieces. And it just ain't so. — Patrick Cockburn

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways. — Thomas Bangalter

Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it's a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything. — Marc Racicot

The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup? — Vance Havner

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights. — Deborah Day

... the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them. — Ian McEwan