Craig S. Keener Quotes

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

Craig S. Keener

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• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Good
  • Always
  • Struggle

• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Difficult
  • Horror
  • Terrified

• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Made
  • Admiration
  • Distant

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Speak

• I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Book
  • Political

• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Political
  • Religious

• How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• If you still have to ask, shame on you

  

  Louis Armstrong

• He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good ... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• Out of respect for my gay male readers, I'll resist the temptation to characterize this ruling as 'shoving gay marriage down our throats.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Respect
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Present
  • Intelligent
  • Stock

• I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • Heart
  • She
  • Girl

• But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

  

  Don Cheadle

• I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Money

• I'm obsessed with 'Peaky Blinders.' Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Bad

• I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Mother

• So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

  

  Carrie Ann Inaba
  • Voice
  • Word
  • Vulnerable

• God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Scripture