John Ortberg Quotes

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

John Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeLoveGoodBeautyArtHate

I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.

Jim James

TimeMeDoorGuitarFindWant

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

Jill Lepore

PrivacyKnowEveryoneKeepUsKnown

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff

LifeMindMeSisterWritingShort

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.

Sid Fleischman

ChildMeBookYouSayThings

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Rodney Brooks

GoodMathematicsWeirdLotteryHead

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

LoveMePlacesRealThingsSet

I have been making music since I was a kid. I have written music since I was, like, seven or eight. I was in the studio at 9, 10. So I've had a lot of practice over a lot of years.

Joyner Lucas

MusicPracticeKidOverYearsBeen

Digital products are, for the most part, services that empower consumers to achieve something that they couldn't do before. Every screen must reflect your value proposition.

Jay Samit

ValueAchieveDigitalEmpowerScreen

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

Johnny Galecki

WorkLoveAbsolutelyI Love

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Dee Dee Myers

EyesToughYouLookLostQuit

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

SufferingWorldFiresAroundStrife

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

Austin Clarke

SilencePoetryMindLossCountry

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