R. C. Sproul Quotes

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

R. C. Sproul

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • Unfolding

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• 'Doesn’t it scare you, having your death close by all the time?' said Lyra. 'Why ever would it? If he’s there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.'

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Time
  • Why
  • Death

• The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Number

• To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Hand