F. F. Bruce Quotes
Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.
To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.
And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.
Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?
It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.