J. I. Packer Quotes

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Husband

• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Done
  • Man
  • Black

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Television

• Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Safe
  • Before
  • Stunt

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Dance

• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Text
  • Define

• Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • You
  • Storytelling
  • Muscles

• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Bad
  • Rap

• I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

  

  Gerard Depardieu
  • Man
  • Affairs

• I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dark

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.

  

  Jeff Ament

• Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

  

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