Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
Eugene H. Peterson
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
R. Kelly
In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
Gary Herbert
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
Sam Graves
I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Fiona Shaw
The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
Mandy Moore
For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
Laura Benanti
I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
Vicki Lawrence
I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
Dana Davis
I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.
Cam
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
Isaac D'Israeli
You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.
Yogi Berra
He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.
Ted Hughes
'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
Patrick Rothfuss
It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In not more than a month’s time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.
Leon Trotsky
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
Abraham Lincoln
The Chinese love Ford's product line: they love the quality, the fuel-efficiency, the safety, the brand.
Alan Mulally
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
Immanuel Kant
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
Eugene H. Peterson
