Leland Ryken Quotes

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

Leland Ryken

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• Papa died when he was 77.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Died
  • He
  • Papa

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others

• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Opinion
  • Assumptions

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Love
  • Character
  • Me

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Great
  • Light
  • Cool

• I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • World
  • Writing
  • Thoughts

• When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Art

• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

  

  Bjork
  • Up

• I never set out to work on the concept of androgyny. For me, it was more about trying to find a wardrobe that would fundamentally appeal to both men and women: Trying to find the right shirt, the right jeans, the right trouser - but on different landscapes.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Work
  • Growing
  • Study