R. C. Sproul Quotes

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

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• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • First
  • Order
  • Trauma

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Cutting

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Place

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Story

• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Hip Hop
  • Forward

• I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Comedy
  • Marriage

• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Gratitude

• A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Good
  • Funny

• I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • God

• Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Church
  • Gospel