D. A. Carson Quotes
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
Quotes to Explore
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I need instant gratification.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?
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I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.
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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
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We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
