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

• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• 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

• Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Style

• I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Selfish

• The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Consciousness
  • Repetition

• 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