Astute famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
-- Carol Burnett

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I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.
-- Greg Behrendt

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Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
-- Kate DiCamillo

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Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
-- Martin Fry

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Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
-- Pope Francis

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I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.
All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.
The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there, but the rest of us didn't know anything about her. It's just so typical of Canadians that we know Rosa Parks, in that "bad country to the south of us" - they needed this lovely, courageous woman to sit down in the front of the bus - but we wouldn't know ours, because of course we "don't have racism in Canada."
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.
If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.
You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
If "gospel" means good news, then Jeremiah had some for sure. He saw the judgment coming, in horrifying technicolour. But he saw beyond it to the redeeming, restoring grace of God, and indeed he speaks of the "new covenant", which takes us to the heart of the gospel in Christ.
I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.