Ted Chiang Quotes

Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.

Ted Chiang

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• Light
• Heaven

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• Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Light
  • Relationship
  • Green

• If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

  

  Manute Bol
  • God
  • Long
  • Kids

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Work
  • God
  • Spiritual

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Light
  • Day
  • Loyalty

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Love
  • Promise

• I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Law
  • Opinion

• The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Light
  • Candle

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Turn
  • Legal

• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Light

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Mind
  • Business

• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Cursed

• I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Pool

• I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Relationship
  • I Love
  • My Mom

• Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • God
  • Light
  • Heaven