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John Ortberg Quotes

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

John Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1957

Topics

Responsibility People Behavior Try

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

Stewart Lee

Time Walk Me Ideas Down Know

There's this whole thing of being two people. You are the person you want to be - the writer - and then there's this weird other life of going on tour and talking about the writing. And that really is weird.

Michelle Paver

Life People Writing Weird Talking

I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

Molly Ivins

War World Go Said World War I Dogs

I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.

Louise Wilson

Money Feel Always Size Original

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

Josh Lucas

Good People World Good People Alive

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

Jasmine Guy

Community Quality Creating Involved

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

Clark Duke

Character People Drawing Person Line

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atom Egoyan

Father Simple Person More Human Own

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

Susie Orbach

Failure People Disappointment Drive

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

Mark Ruffalo

Communication People Difficult See

I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.

Lennie James

Sun Me Hotel Remember Sand You

Sometimes in life, when we really want something, we can approach it in a way that might actually be closing us off from achieving it.

Gretchen Bleiler

Life Achieving Sometimes Want Way