J. I. Packer Quotes

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

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• The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Problem

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • You
  • Me
  • Respect

• As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Long
  • Business
  • Finance

• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Failure

• When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Culture

• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Peace
  • Belief
  • Building

• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Important
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• Change is never easy.

  

  Sally Field
  • Change
  • Never
  • Easy

• When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Smile

• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Health
  • Read
  • Doctor

• If police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Job
  • Help

• 'Clampdown' (1979)

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash

• Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

• When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • House
  • Wife

• The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with Larry Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Want
  • Regret
  • Managers

• The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Disaster

• The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

  

  George Combe
  • Long
  • Success
  • Simple

• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Poverty
  • Curse
  • Justification

• That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Country
  • Moments
  • Defining

• The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

  

  J. I. Packer