D. A. Carson Quotes
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.D. A. Carson
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
Hans Jonas -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
Sam Riley -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
Ram Charan -
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
Patrick Whitesell -
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
Ed Gillespie -
I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
Abbie Cornish -
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
Gary Ackerman
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
Alfred North Whitehead -
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
A. S. Byatt -
It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.
Angela Ruggiero -
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?
Simone de Beauvoir -
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.
D. A. Carson