F. F. Bruce Quotes

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I don't call myself a writer.

When we love someone it is because we built that feeling, bit by bit. It's a choice. It's what we make only for ourselves.

Great teams have players who understand their responsibilities.

I've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun.

You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness

A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.