D.A. Carson Quotes

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

You can always get better.

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

No one's on at my time but infomercials.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Economics is not brain surgery.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.

As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.

We're more effective than birth control pills.