J. I. Packer Quotes

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Knowing

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
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• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
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• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
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  • Captain

• Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Friend
  • Things
  • Him

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • People
  • Like
  • Drive

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Baseball
  • Show
  • Dice

• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
  • Approach

• Ultimately, I didn't quite find the company I wanted to join, but I met more than 100 entrepreneurs and realized that all these entrepreneurs were just as unqualified as I was. If I wanted to be this retailer of the future, or if I wanted to join the retailer of the future, I could just start it.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Future

• Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Heart
  • Film
  • Marilyn Monroe

• If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.

  

  Fairfield Porter

• All is well, thank God... but victory will not be complete, definitive or stable, as long as Masonry is in our Spain. And how will it disappear? What to do? Ask Mussolini.

  

  Francisco Franco
  • God
  • Long
  • Victory

• God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • God
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