Martin Luther Quotes

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

Martin Luther

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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• Papa died when he was 77.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Died
  • He
  • Papa

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Forest

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Roots

• Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Voice

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Holiday
  • Destination
  • Italy

• The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all - He knows - HE knows!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Question
  • Player

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Free
  • Failure

• I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Why
  • Movie

• You cannot come here because you are not white.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • You
  • White
  • Come

• In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Words
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Petty

• The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Experience
  • Giving

• My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Real
  • Book
  • Sales

• You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Work
  • Money
  • Quality

• Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.'

  

  Eric Andre
  • Energy
  • Crazy

• 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman.

  

  Charles J. Shields
  • Age
  • Father
  • Black

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Scriptures
  • Fountain