John Ortberg Quotes

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

John Ortberg

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LearningWomenCaringSickLanguage

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

John Gurdon

HealthPeopleSufferingThinkView

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Max Planck

FutureNowWillRightUpLaws

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Michael Graves

ValuePeopleMeNegativeCareCall

I'm not making music for intelligent people or dumb people. I'm just making music for people.

Stromae

MusicPeopleDumbIntelligentJust

I like to cook and go to Whole Foods.

Tom Sturridge

GoCookWholeLikeWhole Foods

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

Robert Conrad

CharacterLightMePantsYearsOut

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Ruth Ozeki

PowerLightRealityPossibilities

I don't judge anybody who chose not to serve during Vietnam, at all. It's a different time, and I don't judge anybody for the decision they made.

Jason Kander

TimeDecisionJudgeVietnamServe

I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.

Douglas Trumbull

CheapLittleRatherThanSpectacular

In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.

Christo

TimeBuildingWindowsThreeLiving

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Corrine Brown

PeopleSurvivalEnjoyNeedFlorida

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

Conor McGregor

FamilyFutureBestPeopleCareAble

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