Craig S. Keener Quotes

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

Craig S. Keener

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• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• Papa died when he was 77.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Died
  • He
  • Papa

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Roots

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Stupid

• For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

  

  David Elliott
  • Time
  • Live
  • Art

• In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Home
  • True

• I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.

  

  Lee Whitnum
  • Real
  • High

• Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Men
  • Character
  • High

• I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.

  

  Franka Potente
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Winning

• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  

  Faith Ringgold

• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Suffering
  • Emotional
  • Poverty

• I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Work

• It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Death
  • Mystery
  • Birth

• Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Bible
  • Using
  • Portions