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.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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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.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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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.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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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.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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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.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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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.
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God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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I know I speak for the Bishop when I tell you how sorry I am for all the pain you have suffered in your life.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
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Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.