George Verwer Quotes

We need to learn how to agree to disagree and get on with the basic living out of the Christian life, mobilising people for missions and presenting the gospel to the whole world.

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• Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • You
  • Now
  • Comeback

• I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Better

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Playing
  • Flying

• 'I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive.'

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Driving

• I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Long
  • Stars
  • Shows

• I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • May
  • Never

• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Love
  • Consolation

• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Feelings
  • Said

• Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Person
  • Musician
  • Notes

• It's the biggest win in my three years here. One of our fortes is wearing people down, and when Pereira went out, our pressure started to get to them.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • People
  • Win

• Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nation
  • Election
  • Americans

• Any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Gods
  • Gospel
  • Analysis

• If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Blood
  • Gospel
  • Worldliness

• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Blame

• We need to learn how to agree to disagree and get on with the basic living out of the Christian life, mobilising people for missions and presenting the gospel to the whole world.

  

  George Verwer
  • Gospel
  • Disagree
  • Missions