J. I. Packer Quotes
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.
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Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
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By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.
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Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.
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It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
