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
  • Respect
  • Me

• 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

• 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 doing a music video for a group called 'Die Antwoord.' That's fun, but yeah, I'm trying to get a live-action film off the ground, and that could take anywhere from a few months to the rest of my life.

  

  Duke Johnson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.

  

  Jake Tapper

• A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.

  

  George Packer
  • Great
  • Truth

• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Cry

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  

  William James
  • Success
  • Positive
  • Successful

• I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Parents
  • Science
  • Dad

• If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fire
  • Prepared
  • Spark

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

  

  J. I. Packer