Jerry Bridges Quotes
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.Jerry Bridges
Quotes to Explore
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Everybody has problems.
Tanya Tucker -
It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
Larry Bird -
To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
Coventry Patmore -
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug -
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There’s something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. There’s something in my very blood that owns Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate, A thread of water, churned to milky spate Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.
Elinor Wylie
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To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.
Lydia Lunch -
I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
Christopher Walken -
If you look at Buster Keaton or Douglas Fairbanks movies, what still amazes you today is their physical ability. The only special effects that never grow old are what you can do with the human body.
Christophe Gans -
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr -
The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries -
Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
Ann Romney
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I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.
Elaine Stritch -
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
Billy Higgins -
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet -
The Islamic State does not want us to open our doors to their refugees. It wants them to be hopeless and desperate. It does not want us to enjoy ourselves with our families and friends in bars and concert halls, stadiums and restaurants. It wants us to huddle in our houses, within our own social groups, and close our doors in fear.
Deeyah Khan -
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida -
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.
Maurice Saatchi
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)
Isaac Newton -
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
Wilhelm Steinitz -
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
Adoniram Judson -
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
Jerry Bridges