Jerry Bridges Quotes
God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
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Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, 'Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now.'
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.
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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
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Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world.
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Without the meed of some melodious tear.
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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
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What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
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You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
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God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
