Snowballing1 Quotes & Sayings

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams. — Patrice Motsepe

You're beautiful, like a May fly. — Ernest Hemingway,

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Holy Land ... What an experience. I will never forget this day. — Justin Timberlake

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well — William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the Gospels to suggest that God causes the mob to come together against Jesus. Violent contagion is enough. Those responsible for the Passion are the human participants them-selves, incapable of resisting the violent contagion that affects them all when a mimetic snowballing1 comes within their range, or rather when they come within the range of this snowballing and are swept along by it. We don't have to invoke the supernatural to explicate this. The war of all against all that transforms communities into a war of all against one that gathers and unifies them is not limited solely to the case of Jesus. — Rene Girard

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way. — Matthew Perry

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter. — Neil T. Anderson

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. — Mario Andretti

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer. — W. H. Auden

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best. — Michel De Montaigne

I missed you like I've never missed anyone. I missed the future I was going to have with you. I missed the feeling of having you in my arms like this. I missed hearing your voice and seeing your face and sleeping next to you. I missed all of it because I was sure it was gone. — Allie Everhart