Arthur Peacocke Quotes

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Art
  • American
  • Beautiful

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • Dying
  • Living

• What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Christian

• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Cool
  • Unique

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Start

• God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!

  

  Bailee Madison
  • God
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Mind

• I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • Grandparents

• When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

  

  Betty Williams
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Peace

• The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

  

  Arthur Peacocke
  • World
  • Picture
  • Perspective