M.T. Bass Quotes

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.

A rolling loan gathers no loss.

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

When I get the ball, for some reason I see holes. I'm not really sure how.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.

You do have an eye for the tarnished lining.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.