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N. T. Wright Quotes

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: british
Birth: December 1, 1948

Topics

Faith Beautiful Wife Me Know Matter

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

Moments Events Existence Up Big

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Michael Ironside

Kid Little Little Kid Precocious

Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we think that we're the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you're not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.

Love Music Alone Best Me World

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.

Work Good People Me Laugh Way

When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.

Life Memories Time You Create Go

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Way Afraid Being Only Being Afraid

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Good Wait Good Things Believe Think

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Life Change Time I Can Real Same

I like to say I'm not a hero.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Care Reality Interesting More Myth

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.

Love Mother Respect Parents Loved

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

Nature Me Photography Look Back See

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