Endless Quotes - Page 28

• We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.

  Randy Alcorn

  Lying, Believe, Adventure

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.394, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Love Is, Giving, Profound

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• If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Waiting, Given, Endure

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• The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

  Daniel Henninger

  What If, May, Internet

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• There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

  Neil Turok

  Past, Bangs, May

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• Writing a novel- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

  Steve Hely

  Pain, Taken, Writing

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• We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.

  Deborah King

  Smart, Limiting Beliefs, Taught

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.

  Rebecca Miller

  Thinking, Artist, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Stories, Television, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget! - in chess, like in literature, "the other" (the reader, the adversary, the partner, etc.) has to be a collaborator, has to work with you to get to the final goal. We depend on them! But they also depend on us.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Goal, Finals, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984.

  Chris Hedges

  Iron, Credit, World

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Kentucky, Water

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about "endless war" or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.

  John Pilger

  Brother, War, Writing

  Source: progressive.org

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• You reach peaks only to see there's another greater peak beyond it. Suddenly that one looks like it'd have a much better view. It's an endless cycle of going toward things that you think will provide you happiness. At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.

  Eric Lange

  Thinking, Views, Choices

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• There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless. We have to prevent these crimes and these awful, awful killings. I just hope people pay attention to it.

  Veronika Varekova

  People, Attention, Pay

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Hurt, Sleep, Kids

  "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Love is having endless support from my husband and the hugs and kisses from my kids.

  Kristen Taekman

  Husband, Kids, Kissing

  "RHOBH’s Kristen Taekman: Parenting, Collaborating, Evolving". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.

  Tom Bowman

  Eye, Cities, House

  "Examining The Ramadi Offensive, Is It Working?". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

  Hal Duncan

  Character, Thinking, Long

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• If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

  Celeste Ng

  Struggle, Thinking, People

  "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

  Vashti Bunyan

  Ideas, Wanted, No Idea

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Movement, World

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It's just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I'm a big fan of them always. It's always people who are very equipped to deal with the situations that they're thrown in. So, the notion just seemed funny, because it's, like, basically stoners are kind of the last guys in the world who are equipped to deal with that. And the humor possibilities just seemed somewhat endless.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, People, Guy

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• I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Digging A Hole, Embarrassment

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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