N. T. Wright Quotes

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote, ' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

I don’t need words, I just need you to come back.” - Taryn

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Life is not about perfection. It's about persistence.

Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.

Not doing harder than doing.

It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so valuable in today's modern age.

Don't dwell too long on the past, forgive and let it go. Too many hours have been wasted on old regrets and sorrow.

Love cannot be contained, love is destined to transcend and change.

What are we before love? But thoughts floating upon a sea. Searching for a shore to explore, to gaze into infinity.

You played my heart as it was meant to be played, a little, then all at once.

When we're together, I'm a leaf floating on a pond. Weightlessly in love.

Every piece of you is a living library of creation. The deeper I look, the more I see.

My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?

You can't make me do nothing but die!

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation

The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.

Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.

I hear you speak in songs of love, written for me only. And though I wander far too much, the path is rarely lonely.

Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely.

I'm not tired. I'm just checking my eyelids for holes. It could take a while

And I’m stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.

Abundance is, but a matter of perception. For here in these lands of plenty, there are more natural treasures than one can behold.

In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.

To discover the source of this alchemical love within is to uncover the deepest secrets of the soul. It is to unearth and align with the ultimate truth of who we are.

What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps our most essential nature.