John Ortberg Quotes

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.

John Ortberg

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PainGrowBadFindWantMature

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

Anatoly Karpov

WorldChampionStrongNeedAttract

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

Andre Holland

LiveBestPeopleMePotentialGoal

During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.

John Marshall

GovernmentIdentityHumanityPerson

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

Stella McCartney

PeopleStartThinkLuxuryYouWay

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Steven Pinker

WordsYourselfPeopleTreatNegative

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Steven Wright

FriendsYouBarbieWhyBuyHer

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

Tommy Lee Jones

LifeChangeEarthMarsPlanetsOur

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

PressMetObamaWaterloo

When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

Jon Watts

DetailBudgetPlanYouDownLow

I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.

Dinesh D'Souza

AgeFoundationAmericaYearCareer

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Boethius

AloneManHeavenGoWillNever

I'm afraid of flying.

Allison Janney

FlyingAfraid

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