Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

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• There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • School
  • Game
  • Goal

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Doctor

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • More
  • Left
  • Irritating

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Live
  • Day
  • Questions

• I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Day
  • Bird

• My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Play
  • Instrument

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Happy

• I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Country
  • Money
  • Travel

• I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Beautiful
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

  

  Art Carney
  • Death
  • Suffering

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • God
  • Light
  • Inspiration

• We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Country
  • Band

• Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Happy
  • Start