N. T. Wright Quotes

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.

The future did not arrive.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.

Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.