Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Real

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Way
  • Inside

• There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Universe
  • Old
  • Theory

• A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Energy

• Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Society
  • Creative
  • Living

• Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Easy
  • Determination

• A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Up
  • Book
  • Taken

• His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Die
  • Unknown

• I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

  

  James Marsh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• When 'Teen Vogue' started out, 'Teen Vogue' was an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers. You know, it was the little sister to 'Vogue.' And over the years, we've realized that our mission was really to become more focused on making this an inclusive community that speaks to every kind of young person.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Community
  • Fashion
  • Sister

• Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Country
  • Hero

• Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War

• I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

  

  George Weinberg
  • Proud
  • Word
  • Coined

• Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Hero
  • Love God