John Wycliffe Quotes

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

John Wycliffe

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• I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Fun

• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Path
  • Talent
  • Open

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Decade

• It's weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn't expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Weird

• But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.

  

  John Breaux
  • People
  • Time

• But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • Real
  • Heart

• We considered the Dear Leader our god. That's huge. He's more than our parents. I thought all of the world respected Kim Il Sung. That's why we were bowing to their pictures.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • World
  • God
  • Why

• The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • People
  • Bible