E. P. Sanders Quotes

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is.

The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."

I am essential to the theater.

Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

We love being on tour. It's what we do, what we're all about, and we enjoy doing that more than anything.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

I cast very much from the gut, and I think I was very lucky to be able to get... many amazing international... people that I had always really wanted to work with.

I think whenever you cast someone, someone's going to be critical about it.

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.