Alexander MacLaren Quotes

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

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• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Development

• You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Society

• I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Silly
  • Childish

• Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Good
  • Because
  • Often

• Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • True
  • Age

• Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Question
  • Process

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Party
  • Powerful

• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • May
  • Imagination

• If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Power
  • Fool

• L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Innocent

• But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.

  

  Adam Smith

• I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.

  

  Yasmin Le Bon

• The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Daily
  • Author
  • Profound

• Astronomers have so far escaped the extreme specialization that has overtaken physicists. Telescopes are big, but they are not as complicated as accelerators. Observations with a big telescope can be carried out in hours rather than years.

  

  Freeman Dyson

• It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Words

• The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

  

  Alexander MacLaren
  • Truth
  • Fact
  • Gospel