FastSaying

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.


A. N. Wilson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on ...
HUSTON SMITH You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE I do not fear death. I only fear not living my life.
PETER GRECH Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ...
EPICURUS To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE “Death do not disturb me, I have no fear for death. I have died thousands of time in past. My conc...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I don't fear death. I have a lot more to do,
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me...
EMIL M. CIORAN I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not...
JUDITH JAMISON That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from...
STEVE IRWIN A great way to LIVE is to BE, DO, and HAVE all the things you really, really, really want before you...
LORRIN L. LEE To be happy: BE Yourself. DO what you love to DO. Have what you love to HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE BE Memorable. Do Memorable Projects. HAVE Memorable Experiences.
LORRIN L. LEE When going on the journey of life we should always put caution to the wind and have strength in ever...
GARY F EVANS... To have the strength to go and fulfil your hopes and dreams is an aim worth your while indeed, but i...
GARY F EVANS... If we tempt fate we can go over like a roller coaster coming to the end of its tracks.Fate has its o...
GARY F EVANS... I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS People tell me how do they want you.. and I JUST DO STUFF... I JUST DO IT... THAT'S A FACT!
DEYTH BANGER Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations...
PHILIPPE PETIT Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engine...
JAMIE ZAWINSKI I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.
KATORI HALL A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturall...
C. JOYBELL C. Do not fear death, but fear of living with no meaningful endeavor.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
JERRY SEINFELD So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I a...
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works...
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If I mista...
GEORGE MACDONALD Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to y...
BIBLE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE. And ...your LIFE will be well-li...
LORRIN L. LEE Outages just happen periodically, but we do seem to be having an inordinate number.
CAROL TUCKER I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
ATTICUS SHAFFER What type of wrong thing, did I do?
...

What wrong did I said... and why I am so unl...
DEYTH BANGER I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyw...
JULIA STILES You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes bey...
JULIAN BARNES When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... I do not want to promise but I do not think I will be an active participant in the present election ...
ARYEH DERI Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think o...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it ...
NICK WOODMAN I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that...
JOHNNY DEPP I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages ...
JESSYE NORMAN But I do not know the people I am crying for anymore. I don't let myself sympathise—I think it wou...
OLIVIA SUDJIC Do not fear death, for it is natural; but, fear the unnatural act of not living the dream.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had ...
BARRY MCGUIRE I have made a lot of mistakes. But I've worked hard. I have no fear of death. More important, I don'...
STEVEN SEAGAL I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish ...
JULIA STILES Fear, not living the dream; do not fear death.
SCOTTIE SOMERS In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know th...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I d...
HELEN MIRREN Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have...
RUSS FEINGOLD I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. ...
BEYONCE KNOWLES They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome th...
G. GORDON LIDDY Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite di...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I...
BETHANY HAMILTON You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fea...
JAMES JOYCE The Best Person to BE is Who You are. The Best thing to DO is what you Love. The Best Things to HAVE...
LORRIN L. LEE I think that this might be evidence that we did do a good job.
JAMES NAVOLIO There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think...
STEPHEN FREARS There might be cities that want to do it but ... I don't think we'd give up our name for a corporate...
HEATHER FARGO I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday ha...
ELIZABETH GILBERT LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
AMBROSE BIERCE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come...
ALICE WALKER I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I...
BILLY CHILDISH I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think...
ROGER EBERT Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
BERTOLT BRECHT I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be...
DREE HEMINGWAY Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I a...
MIKE LOVE Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NOBOKOV Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I like it. I might be the only person, but I do like it. The timing's terrible, but I think it's a g...
JERRY NARRON Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglect...
FANNY KEMBLE If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a great...
MAGGIE SMITH What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV I do like myself, but I think I'm far too needy!
ROBBIE WILLIAMS Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are...
C.S. LEWIS I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things...
ELENA SATINE I have seen death face to face and returned to the world of living beings. I have savored the fear o...
MANOJE BASU I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anythin...
ODELL BECKHAM, JR. I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical si...
KATHERINE JENKINS So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I ca...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD I think I can do it -- I know I can do it. I just have to go out there and play within myself, just ...
ANTOWAIN SMITH

More A. N. Wilson

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lu...
A. N. WILSON IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern ...
A. N. WILSON Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
A. N. WILSON I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a...
A. N. WILSON Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a f...
A. N. WILSON The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...
A. N. WILSON The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. WILSON I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly str...
A. N. WILSON Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George...
A. N. WILSON In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want Preside...
A. N. WILSON Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, o...
A. N. WILSON It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes r...
A. N. WILSON On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers i...
A. N. WILSON The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. WILSON In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which...
A. N. WILSON If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very sa...
A. N. WILSON The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. WILSON Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no ...
A. N. WILSON I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for t...
A. N. WILSON I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to ...
A. N. WILSON It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculi...
A. N. WILSON The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day...
A. N. WILSON If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously ver...
A. N. WILSON The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. WILSON I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Ho...
A. N. WILSON It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as ...
A. N. WILSON 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
A. N. WILSON I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel...
A. N. WILSON I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England...
A. N. WILSON My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write t...
A. N. WILSON Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
A. N. WILSON I wanted passionately to be a priest.
A. N. WILSON Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I s...
A. N. WILSON I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns o...
A. N. WILSON The scribbler's life is never done.
A. N. WILSON I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
A. N. WILSON I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hop...
A. N. WILSON If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book ...
A. N. WILSON I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it ma...
A. N. WILSON Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. WILSON The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessenti...
A. N. WILSON A busybody's work is never done.
A. N. WILSON When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear...
A. N. WILSON I had lost faith in biography.
A. N. WILSON Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so muc...
A. N. WILSON I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Hon...
A. N. WILSON Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. WILSON Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. WILSON People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
A. N. WILSON I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
A. N. WILSON When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It...
A. N. WILSON I've got nothing very original to say myself.
A. N. WILSON I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
A. N. WILSON Owning a program script is like owning a new born baby, all it does is eat sleep and poop. But ownin...
GANNON N/A Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in y...
CHARLENE A. WILSON When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your p...
N SMITH Haters don't really hate you, they hate themselves;
because you're a reflection of what they wi...
YAIRA N What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, se...
N. KAZANTZAKIS He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
N ROME If I ever get a female dog, I'm gonna name it Karma, cause boy, she's a bitch.
C N The fact of secrecy makes the public question the truthfulness of what is made public. The final res...
JACK N I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another.
FAITH N. You acted like you love me, I acted like I didn't. We were both liars.
FAITH N. Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.
ANNA N. The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work oblige...
N. KAZANTZAKIS Chameleon Is The Animal Which Change According To Surrounding, Feature Similar To Human
AX-N It must be said here, however, that among the activities that all LTTE members, both men and women, ...
N. MALATHY Though I did not have the statistics, just observing the number of women on the streets during peak ...
N. MALATHY One of the outstanding features of Vanni society was the degree of integration of disabled people in...
N. MALATHY This is an inspiring undertaking for America's chemical makers and for industries that use the produ...
JACK N The only self-incriminating investigation that is considered valid is a plea of 'guilty as charged'....
JACK N caring for the safety and well being of employees impacted by Katrina.
JACK N Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A. How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A. Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE "How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A. The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE 'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
JOHN N. MITCHELL I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - mone...
N. T. WRIGHT We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
OMAR N. BRADLEY With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern stat...
OMAR N. BRADLEY I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi...
OMAR N. BRADLEY The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
OMAR N. BRADLEY Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
OMAR N. BRADLEY Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea...
OMAR N. BRADLEY This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD Death is a monster; death is horrible.
N. T. WRIGHT I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g...
N. T. WRIGHT A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we...
N. T. WRIGHT I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discip...
N. T. WRIGHT I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work,...
N. T. WRIGHT While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'bein...
N. T. WRIGHT Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
N. T. WRIGHT The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in ou...
N. T. WRIGHT Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER