F. F. Bruce Quotes

Life's better without braces.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.

When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.

I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.