N. T. Wright Quotes

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

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• Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Always
  • See
  • Last

• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Been
  • Average
  • Months

• I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Government
  • Religion

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Easier

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Country
  • Home
  • Years

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Waste
  • Cannot
  • Idleness

• The truth is, I'm not body confident.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Truth
  • Body
  • Truth Is

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Write
  • First
  • Guilty

• Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Kind
  • Fast

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Country
  • America
  • Struggle

• I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Sometimes
  • Social
  • Dialogue

• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Proud
  • Tradition
  • Self-Esteem

• If one has good faith, you can unlock the secrets of scripture, and in unlocking the secrets of scripture, you have access to everything God wants you to have. Ministers of megachurches become examples of the truth of that claim, because they're well paid, living in wonderful homes, driving very nice cars, dressed well. They are doing well, so if you do this, you too can have success.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Success
  • Scripture
  • Secrets

• Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

  

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