Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• Waiting
• Tasks
• Conclusions

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• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Party

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• I believe in numbers and signs.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Numbers

• The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Country
  • History

• I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Justice
  • Brotherhood

• So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Family
  • Together
  • Night

• For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Water

• There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Up
  • Time

• For a two-hour movie on a 20-day shooting schedule, it's O.K. to have an actor who's a pain in the neck.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Movie
  • Pain

• I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Long
  • Live

• I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Listening

• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  

  Hernan Cortes

• New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

  

  James Turrell

• As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

  

  Mary J. Blige

• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Sympathy
  • Fruit

• If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

  

  John McEnroe
  • World
  • God
  • Guy

• Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?

  

  William Empson
  • Trying
  • Waiting
  • Cold

• I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Band

• Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Waiting
  • Tasks