Vance Packard Quotes

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Vance Packard

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Church
  • Christian

• I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Music
  • Christian
  • Never

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Christian
  • Brand
  • Shoe

• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Help
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Together
  • Want
  • Community

• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Silent
  • Agenda

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Religion

• I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Movie
  • College

• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Christian

• My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Life
  • Women
  • Dream

• The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Years
  • Redemption
  • Beyond

• Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Children
  • House
  • Night

• It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Comforting

• I'd love Shakey Bill to tell me a story - I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn't he?

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Shakespeare
  • William

• They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Beginning
  • Hair

• The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Christian
  • Redemption