David Bentley Quotes

For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Make

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Thought

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Know
  • Focus

• What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Christian

• For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Will

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Education
  • Focus

• I still remember sitting in my parent's basement playing 'Final Fantasy VII' in middle school. When Sephiroth came down like LeBron James on Aerith with that sword, I couldn't talk for a full 20 minutes.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • School
  • Remember

• If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Music
  • Together
  • Hope

• Alone, adj. In bad company.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Bad
  • Alone

• I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

  

  Pervez Musharraf

• It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • God
  • Prayer

• For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.

  

  David Bentley
  • World
  • Eye
  • Creation