John Ortberg Quotes

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

  

  Yael Stone
  • Country
  • History
  • Australia

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Drug
  • Hallucinogenics

• I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • May
  • Sometimes

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • Adversity
  • Most

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Women
  • Success
  • Reality

• Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

  

  Joseph Butler
  • Good
  • Nature

• A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Mutilate

• A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Men
  • Hope

• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Light
  • Evil

• Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

  

  John Ortberg
  • Real
  • Evil