"The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says."

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Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

Roger E. Olson

#Ideas Quotes #Limits Quotes #Aliens Quotes

“I think there are some people who have taken on fame in extraordinary ways, like Madonna, David Bowie, and Michael Jackson. There are other people who have taken it on in a completely different way, like Prince - who is just as famous and has achieved just as much - but is still unbelievably mysterious, which I guess Bowie managed to hold as well. There are different ways of dealing with it, and for some people I think it becomes an art form of how you put yourself out there, and for other people it's literally a way of life, it's who you are, you act like a celebrity.”
“I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
“Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.”

Source : "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.
“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.”
“Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.”
“My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”

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