Christian Quotes

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

People are ready to be actors in making the world a better place.

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Existence without essence is very stressful.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

Example has far more followers than reason.

I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my own company, but there was still that feeling of, "What else do I need to do?"

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

Everything I wear is a do and everything else is a don't!

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

I think the most important thing for any driver is to know that he's getting equality of equipment and priority.

The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

When you're 84, a 70-year-old is still pretty young.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.