E. P. Sanders Quotes

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.

I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy.

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

I would do this for free as long as you're doing it for free.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

To me, my recipes are priceless.

That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.

Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

If we are meticulously careful with the use of the days, the years will take care of themselves.

God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all!

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

The Democratic Party has been very strong in a lot of areas, in fighting to make our country a less discriminatory country. And that is enormously important.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.

Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn't suspect.

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.