"What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place."

-- Stephen Greenblatt

#House Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.”

Source : Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.”
“This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.”
“But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.”
“People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.”
“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.”
“The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.”

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