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.
N. T. Wright
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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.
Cameron Russell
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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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.
Sally Field
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
Zhang Zhidong
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
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The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Beth Revis
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When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
Bram Cohen
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
Alistair Cooke
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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
Saint Augustine
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A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!
Sheldon Harnick
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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.
N. T. Wright