N. T. Wright Quotes
A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.
We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.
Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.
I’ve always thought that Binding was a bit like a war − both sides think they’re right, and neither wants to back down…the only difference is that you’re sleeping with the enemy.”-Evan
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
The only time you've been under me is when I've been inside of you and even then, you're never truly under me. I always remain under you.
Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.
All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.
You can cower, ” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.
Once you the forces that govern behavior, it's harder to blame the behaver
As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.
I had been too tired and too sick with melancholy to ride my bike, knowing full well that riding my bike was a cure.
Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.
If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.Morning arrives and that's it.Sunlight darkens the earth.
...it is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911
She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.
If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.
In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.
Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.
The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic." From Tribe of the Teddy Bear
When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet.
You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.
Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?
What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.
The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.
Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.
We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.
And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash
I can also speak to small woodland creatures, ” he grins at me.
My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905
I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.~Viktor von Strassenberg
There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.
Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.
Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance
Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.