Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Today
  • You
  • Fireworks

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Important
  • Justice

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Path
  • Matter

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  

  Ed Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Community

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Been
  • Call
  • Comeback

• Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Universe
  • King

• Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Long
  • Funny

• Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

  

  Freddie Wong

• There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Country
  • Choices

• The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Business
  • Small
  • Confidence

• I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Music
  • Home
  • Happy

• In a successful health system, the proportion of per-capita health dollars used for home care, outpatient primary care, and preventive services should actually increase, not decrease, relative to those for acute hospital care.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Home
  • Health

• Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.

  

  Dennis Wholey
  • Suffering
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • World
  • Live
  • Eyes

• Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Time
  • Book
  • Study

• I have but one life to give to adventure.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Life
  • Adventure

• Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
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