R. C. Sproul Quotes

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

R. C. Sproul

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Poverty
  • Revolution
  • Mess

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Life
  • Change
  • Environmental

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Act
  • Give
  • Pay

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Road
  • New

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Week

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Speaking

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Different
  • Society
  • Culture

• Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Sunset

• Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Wisdom
  • Judgment
  • Hunting

• In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Culture
  • Claim
  • Pluralism