N. T. Wright Quotes

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

Freedom is from within.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

My socks DO match. They're the same thickness.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

I close my eyes, and think of water.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.