J. I. Packer Quotes

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

J. I. Packer

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Celebrity
  • Prove
  • My Own

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Army

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Education
  • Food
  • Medicine

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Long
  • Character
  • Movie

• The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Interesting
  • Information

• I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Long
  • Look
  • I Can

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
  • Senate

• 'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.

  

  Drew Sidora Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Movie

• I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Struggle

• I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Maturity