People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and yo...
ELAINE PAGELS The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of st...
ELAINE PAGELS Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading...
ELAINE PAGELS The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from ...
ELAINE PAGELS The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death,...
ELAINE PAGELS The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other tex...
ELAINE PAGELS For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his d...
ELAINE PAGELS I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a f...
ELAINE PAGELS The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the ma...
ELAINE PAGELS The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.
ELAINE PAGELS Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to...
ELAINE PAGELS I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
ELAINE PAGELS Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark...
ELAINE PAGELS There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnos...
ELAINE PAGELS He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.
ELAINE PAGELS I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex a...
ELAINE PAGELS I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do s...
ELAINE PAGELS When John accuses "evildoers" of leading gullible people into sin, what troubles him is what trouble...
ELAINE PAGELS The Gospel of Judas is a real surprise. It pictures Judas ..not as the worst villain in the history ...
ELAINE PAGELS Whether or not one agrees with it, or finds it interesting or reprehensible, it's an enormously inte...
ELAINE PAGELS When Jews talked about external enemies,they talked about them as if they were monsters.
ELAINE PAGELS The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sent...
ELAINE PAGELS These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion and demonstrating how diverse and ...
ELAINE PAGELS The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says man...
ELAINE PAGELS What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other...
ELAINE PAGELS The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities ar...
ELAINE PAGELS I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.
ELAINE PAGELS The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman ...
ELAINE PAGELS I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were ...
ELAINE PAGELS Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that...
ELAINE PAGELS I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what...
ELAINE PAGELS The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.
ELAINE PAGELS What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus i...
ELAINE PAGELS These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
ELAINE PAGELS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is ...
DOUGLAS PAGELS Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that dia...
DOUGLAS PAGELS True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
DOUGLAS PAGELS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time o...
DOUGLAS PAGELS Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. ...
DOUGLAS PAGELS I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so...
DOUGLAS PAGELS I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science...
HEINZ R. PAGELS Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about t...
HEINZ R. PAGELS The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball mach...
HEINZ R. PAGELS Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veil...
HEINZ R. PAGELS Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
HEINZ R. PAGELS There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and t...
HEINZ R. PAGELS I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
ELAINE STRITCH SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
ELAINE GREYWALKER In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful jo...
ELAINE SCIOLINO While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentime...
ELAINE CHAO Owen nodded. “Then let’s gear up and get out there.” And, please God, let them all come home s...
ELAINE LEVINE The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
ELAINE MORGAN I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over an...
ELAINE DUNDY Make a memory with your children,
Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't ...
ELAINE HARDT The only thing experience teaches you is what you can
ELAINE MAY The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbo...
ELAINE AGATHER Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior...
ELAINE SHERMAN If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of co...
ELAINE GILL When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd...
ELAINE STRITCH 401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their se...
ELAINE CHAO A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness...
ELAINE MACDONALD I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about....
ELAINE STRITCH Deep in the heart of Kentucky's rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fasc...
ELAINE CHAO The key to understanding the answer to any questions about guidance is having a clear grasp of what ...
ELAINE SEILER It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enroll...
ELAINE CHAO Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure t...
ELAINE CHAO Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compare...
ELAINE MACDONALD Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
ELAINE STRITCH If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you i...
ELAINE MACDONALD It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating o...
ELAINE AGATHER We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.
ELAINE AGATHER The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishb...
ELAINE AGATHER We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.
ELAINE ADAMS This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.
ELAINE ADAMS I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never ...
ELAINE ADAMS The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is dete...
ELAINE ADAMS The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect tho...
ELAINE ADAMS It's just devastating to hear,
ELAINE ADAMS We're known for helping out other people in need. The kids have been great.
ELAINE ADAMS Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some childre...
ELAINE ADAMS As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
ELAINE STRITCH If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
ELAINE LINER My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
ELAINE STRITCH I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an America...
ELAINE SCIOLINO We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that...
ELAINE CHAO She loved good preaching. She loved good political talk. So she is smiling.
ELAINE STEELE Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.
ELAINE CHAO We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And ...
ELAINE CHAO As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be wors...
ELAINE CHAO Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' Th...
ELAINE CHAO The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in Ame...
ELAINE CHAO To some Elvis fans, Graceland is the Mecca of pop-culture kitsch, but to many of the 2,500 tourists ...
ELAINE ROBBINS This team's been really resilient. They've never panicked. It's really as simple as that.
ELAINE ELLIOTT You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
ELAINE STRITCH I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!
ELAINE STRITCH Jenna is a superb athlete. She has a great vertical leap and has a nice shot to go along with it.
ELAINE EDDY There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.
ELAINE CHAO Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five c...
ELAINE CHAO Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to...
ELAINE CHAO We have very few options, and the clock is ticking. It's getting very late in the game.
ELAINE GINNOLD At first I didn't know what to expect, because Rachel has never won domestically. I believe regardle...
ELAINE YOUNGS We're not known to overlook anyone. We're not a typical five-seed that comes from a big league and f...
ELAINE ELLIOTT They didn't fold when it wasn't easy. When they got close, we didn't give up.
ELAINE ELLIOTT I didn't see much spontaneity. The kids will call out in class or react in a vocal way, but that was...
ELAINE TARR All seven log trucks had some type of defect and four of them were bad enough to be out of service.
ELAINE FISCHER Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the ...
ELAINE CHAO I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
ELAINE STRITCH There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's m...
ELAINE STRITCH I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American wo...
ELAINE CHAO They led us to victory. Everybody else gave great support, did their jobs. Fatigue wasn't a factor a...
ELAINE ELLIOTT Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Moham...
ELAINE SCIOLINO Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, st...
ELAINE CHAO Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when he...
ELAINE CHAO Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market...
ELAINE CHAO The frustration level is very, very high.
ELAINE GINNOLD We're trapped in this twilight zone.
ELAINE GINNOLD It's true that employers who fail to post the required posters may be fined, but at the state level ...
ELAINE FISCHER Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our libe...
ELAINE CHAO That takes a lot of the pressure off. Michelle played extremely well tonight.
ELAINE PAGLIARULO We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have bee...
ELAINE SCIOLINO Arizona State is going to be willing to go to the rim and be aggressive. We have to be aggressive as...
ELAINE ELLIOTT 'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical ...
ELAINE PAIGE Clearly, this is very embarrassing, and very serious. The system is only as strong as its weakest li...
ELAINE SHANNON Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted a...
ELAINE CHAO News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 me...
ELAINE CHAO When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists...
ELAINE CHAO I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
ELAINE STRITCH Because of the long working hours, because of lack of transportation, because of scarcity of classes...
ELAINE LACEY The 20-foot ceilings in the front are now 12 and we have new tables and chairs. It's got a whole new...
ELAINE BECKHAM Everyone tells me that I shouldn't have retired. I guess in a way I haven't ­ I enjoy taking classe...
ELAINE HANRATTY Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.
ELAINE CHAO There's nothing ambiguous about the findings.
ELAINE OSTRANDER But it's not. I think it looks like a Tudor cottage, at least from the outside.
ELAINE BROWN We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participa...
ELAINE CUMMING We have to be our own pioneers. We don't have somebody out there that is willing to be our savior or...
ELAINE BARKDULL Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population grow...
ELAINE CHAO America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to bei...
ELAINE CHAO Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for ...
ELAINE CHAO If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a mu...
ELAINE PAIGE I'm in touch with my grandma, she's in Indiana, my uncle, he went back to New Orleans and I got a co...
ELAINE NUNN Happiness is when you get to sleep in on a rainy day.
ELAINE LEE Many paintings start as sketches done on the spot, a mountain top or a window looking out. I then ad...
ELAINE KUNTZ I felt we should have been able to win the game. I was disappointed that we lost. That's one I thoug...
ELAINE JONES St. Mary's College will be a very competitive match-up for us. They are a very aggressive team and t...
ELAINE JONES Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force.
ELAINE MAXWELL The base of this freedom is respect for human rights. And these nine channels are against humanity.
ELAINE XIE We won the election. I think that for the most part this might be considered sour grapes.
ELAINE TAYLOR ?No problem' ? it replaced his first name. He was absolutely the personification of what we're taugh...
ELAINE HERALD My dear, you can't even see over the net. Best think of something else.
ELAINE PAIGE He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more ea...
ELAINE KAMARCK I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.
ELAINE DUNDY At first I wasn't going to reopen, but I couldn't walk away from it.
ELAINE BECKHAM It wasn't like Misty played horrible. But Rachel was just laying out to make some of those digs.
ELAINE YOUNGS She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's im...
ELAINE JONES I think we can still be that antique mecca, and I think we can also capture the flavor of what we we...
ELAINE DAVIS Everyone deserves a second chance,
ELAINE CHAO it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.
ELAINE CHAO [Katrina will have a] tremendous ... It definitely will be devastating.
ELAINE CHAO These are strong numbers, but they are not conclusive numbers,
ELAINE CHAO Repetitive-stress injuries in the workplace are an important problem. I recognize this critical chal...
ELAINE CHAO Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indi...
ELAINE CHAO Rosemary, his sister, was very similar to Sam. Introverted and quiet.
ELAINE TARR If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of con...
ELAINE GILL if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.
ELAINE STRITCH I know I’m a long way from being untwisted.” Val drew her close and kissed her forehead. “I ki...
ELAINE LEVINE She looked up at Val. “God, can you imagine if I could get my hair to change color on its own?” ...
ELAINE LEVINE I want a do-over.” “I can’t set the clock back,” he whispered, touching his forehead to hers...
ELAINE LEVINE Shhh,” Addy said. “Honey, we’ll talk in the morning.” “It can’t wait.” “Then what is...
ELAINE LEVINE Barry, you’re a one and only, forever kind of guy. I think I’ll keep you.
ELAINE LEVINE Her stories were going to randomly come out. He had to be man enough to listen to them. It was part ...
ELAINE LEVINE In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan Internat...
ELAINE SCIOLINO To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications...
ELAINE CHAO Capital available for individuals to start and expand businesses would increase with regulatory and ...
ELAINE CHAO Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.
ELAINE SHOWALTER It does not look like Virginia Beach is outside the norm by any means. They are caught in a bind.
ELAINE DECK If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.
ELAINE STRITCH I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
ELAINE STRITCH The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peac...
ELAINE CHAO Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors ...
ELAINE CHAO Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.
ELAINE CHAO For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must no...
ELAINE CHAO I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremen...
ELAINE PAIGE The Ladies Who Lunch.
ELAINE STRITCH Our county is so big that we don't think that it would hurt us too much.
ELAINE BARKDULL If we went in and pre-planned an industrial park where we put things that maybe a business wouldn't ...
ELAINE BARKDULL The more one looks at the rebuild or tunnel option, the more very significant adverse impacts they f...
ELAINE SPENCER I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work....
ELAINE PAIGE When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
ELAINE CHAO Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound un...
ELAINE CHAO If I know about drug dealing in the ghetto, the police have to know. One has to wonder why very litt...
ELAINE BROWN We have to acknowledge that there are massive problems if we want to facilitate change. There has be...
ELAINE BROWN You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by...
ELAINE BROWN I think now that both parties are going to be talking, we can get an extension for the people who ar...
ELAINE BROWN I get really sad when I talk about the house. It has more history than any place I've ever lived —...
ELAINE BROWN If a kid is being bullied, that's all they think about and cannot concentrate on their academic stud...
ELAINE WILLIAMS European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America mor...
ELAINE CHAO We will push them to come back.
ELAINE YOUNGS We were aggressive, whether it was jump-serving, hitting on two, or playing free. We were such a gre...
ELAINE YOUNGS