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The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned t...
R. SCOTT BAKKER Duty measures the distance between the animal and the divine.
R. SCOTT BAKKER Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail.
R. SCOTT BAKKER For the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over other...
R. SCOTT BAKKER For Men, no circle is ever closed. We walk ever in spirals.
R. SCOTT BAKKER It is the difference in knowledge that commands respect. This is why the true test of every student ...
R. SCOTT BAKKER To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet...
R. SCOTT BAKKER There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for kno...
R. SCOTT BAKKER Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
R. SCOTT BAKKER History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These ar...
R. SCOTT BAKKER He said ..." A pause. He cleared his throat. "He said that pity was the only love I could hope for."...
R. SCOTT BAKKER The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. SCOTT BAKKER Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
R. SCOTT RICHARDS If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not le...
SCOTT R. KURTZ

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says th...
JIM BAKKER

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing G...
JIM BAKKER

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
JIM BAKKER Get near the stage and make a lot of noise.
BEN BAKKER It could be very helpful.
BEN BAKKER This is going to show people all the talent we have here. This area has always been treated as the r...
BEN BAKKER We met him once, gave him a CD and he dug it. We got a couple spins on his program and the response ...
BEN BAKKER

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I lite...
JIM BAKKER

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best cons...
JIM BAKKER Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.
CLAUDIA BAKKER

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - ...
JIM BAKKER I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
ROBERT BAKKER

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.
JIM BAKKER

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a te...
JIM BAKKER

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a televi...
JIM BAKKER

But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card - because the Bib...
JIM BAKKER

[Besides earning awards, at least nine films garnered movie deals. Lions Gate Films bought the distr...
JIM BAKKER

When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise.
JIM BAKKER

All I say is don't fall in love with this world,
JIM BAKKER We are busy nonstop every day.
CORRY BAKKER

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as othe...
JIM BAKKER

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.
JIM BAKKER

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer,...
JIM BAKKER In general we don't know who they are, although when we were cleaning up in some state parks we have...
CORRY BAKKER Ninety-nine percent of our clients are businesses. And we also do a lot of work in parks.
CORRY BAKKER We're not going home empty-handed anyways.
GLENYS BAKKER We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.
GLENYS BAKKER With our backs against the wall, we're in familiar territory. We play better when we know we can't a...
GLENYS BAKKER We're playing really well. The only difference between the win and the loss was the coin toss. We we...
GLENYS BAKKER Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER We are looking at the situation with close interest, we believe in the long term there will be a con...
ROBERT BAKKER

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up i...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe tha...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I shop, therefore I am.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he wil...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so t...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not c...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with ...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and sufferi...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, be...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesu...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I take Him shopping with me. I say, "OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain."
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God i...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they...
ROBERT T. BAKKER Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.
ROBERT T. BAKKER Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing...
ROBERT T. BAKKER Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many...
ROBERT T. BAKKER Feathers predate birds.
ROBERT T. BAKKER Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age exti...
ROBERT T. BAKKER At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
ROBERT T. BAKKER

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blo...
ROBERT T. BAKKER When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling t...
ROBERT T. BAKKER

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

...and now we're down to our last $37,000.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I take Him shopping with me. I say, "OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain."
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new an...
ROBERT T. BAKKER I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
ROBERT T. BAKKER How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
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Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY

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