D.A. Carson Quotes

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Desire is no light thing.

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.