F. F. Bruce Quotes

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

If it's not tested, it's broken.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

All strategy depends on competition.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.