Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

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• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Mother`s
  • Lot

• Money for me today does not really matter.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Today
  • Me

• I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Mistakes
  • Order
  • Here

• We had a good response from Australind/Leschenault and there appeared to be an opportunity to have a scout group in the area.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Response

• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Character
  • Perception

• Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • Friends
  • Adversity

• I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Fun
  • Learning
  • Minutes

• The one cool thing about being underground is that it gives you such freedom. You have to be so on top of it, releasing singles all the time, doing videos all the time, and I don't know if I'm ready to give up that freedom.

  

  Uffie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Giving

• Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

  

  Vincent Eugene Craddock
  • Brain
  • Friendship
  • Holes

• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Adversaries
  • Declaration of Independence

• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

  

  George Gilder
  • Computer
  • Grows
  • Faster

• Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Science
  • Geometry

• Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Joy
  • Satan
  • Hates

• What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

  

  Jovan Adepo
  • Performance
  • Informs
  • Off-Screen

• At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.

  

  Andrew W.K.
  • Man
  • Wear
  • Heels

• Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Task
  • Prophet