Gerald Priestland quotes

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
-- Gerald Priestland

#Funny #Class #Keeping Secrets

Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it
-- Gerald Priestland

#Christian #Writing #Suffering

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.
-- Gerald Priestland

#Light #Rocks #Feelings

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.