John Bunyan Quotes

And so I pennedIt down, until at last it came to be,For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

John Bunyan

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Child

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tradition
  • Anonymous
  • Ruined

• Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Girl

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hell

• The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

  

  Lactantius
  • True
  • Know
  • Wisdom

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Opportunities
  • Grateful

• For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Saying

• Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Past
  • Iran
  • Italy

• I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Play
  • Film

• It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • God
  • Aids
  • Disability

• When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Past

• Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Text

• I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Live
  • She
  • Friends

• If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

  

  Wynonna Judd
  • World
  • Connection

• If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Wish
  • Consent

• Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• And so I pennedIt down, until at last it came to be,For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

  

  John Bunyan