N. T. Wright Quotes

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause.

One thing you can't do to a fan is change their heart about somebody.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.