Phillip E. Johnson Quotes

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillip E. Johnson

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Evil

• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Year
  • Run

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • School
  • English
  • Inspiration

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Work
  • Problems

• I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Meaningful

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Love
  • Walk

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Hourglass

• I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Baby
  • Back
  • Drive

• I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Long
  • Couple

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, 'Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won't stamp your passport!' The last time that somebody did that to me - at LAX, actually - I was like, 'Hey, don't ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!'

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Time
  • American
  • Girl

• The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Good
  • Born

• I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Work
  • Aim
  • Productive

• We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
  • People
  • God
  • Trying