Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

Eugene H. Peterson

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• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Gay

• Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Strong
  • Team
  • Brother

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Unique
  • Stars

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Time
  • History
  • Unique

• My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Evil

• In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

  

  Wally Amos
  • Reading
  • Areas
  • Cookies

• I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Way
  • Attention

• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Life
  • War
  • Peace

• I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Book
  • Science

• There were times when I didn't think I would even be at the European Championship. so to be walking off the field, having scored the winning goal in front of our home fans, just got too much for me.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Walking

• The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art

• Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • House
  • Cool

• Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Short

• After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Interesting
  • Relationship
  • Player

• Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
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  • Poets
  • Biblical