Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
Eugene H. Peterson
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Hanif Kureishi
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Sam Snead
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova
I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
Sabrina Carpenter
For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
Canelo Alvarez
If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
Karen Allen
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Walter Isaacson
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
Vic Snyder
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
Viktor E. Frankl
I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
M. C. Escher
My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.
Alessandro Michele
Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.
Frank Waters
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
Zola Jesus
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. Doctorow
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
Eugene H. Peterson
