John Polkinghorne Quotes

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

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• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Know

• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Computers

• I've been loving music all my life.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Treat
  • Judged
  • Weakest

• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Time
  • Involved
  • Activity

• If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • City
  • Paris
  • Fireworks

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Doing
  • Green

• All, all for immortality,Love like the light silently wrapping all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Light

• You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Moments

• There's no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Balance

• Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Attention

• Michael Jackson was adamantly against drugs and alcohol, he was extremely straight-laced; I couldn’t even swear around him. Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Alcohol

• Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.

  

  Christoffel Wiese
  • Business
  • Growing

• Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Party
  • Supposed
  • Prima

• In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Risk

• Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Name
  • Brand
  • Logo

• Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

  

  John Polkinghorne