Alistair Quotes

If our Christianity doesn't work at home, it doesn't work. ~ Alistair Begg

We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control. ~ Alistair Begg

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. ~ Alistair Cooke

In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong. ~ Andy Pick

It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth. ~ Alistair Begg

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us. ~ Alistair Cooke

Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry.
"Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her.
"Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice.
"Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–"
It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here? ~ Gordon Korman

I think it's important to present yourself as a professional. While writing a good book is critical, nothing will cancel that out faster than behaving like an amateur. I cringe every time I see an author arguing with a reader who left a poor review, or fighting with their friends on Facebook … or publicly bashing their agents or publishers. ~ Alistair Cross

Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong. ~ Alistair Begg

There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate. ~ Alistair MacLean

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I'd come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over the water, and even Matilda came along once. There were loads of clothes and seeds and jars of honey and other such things cramping our space, and children of every age moving between the pillars and The Land of Elyon. And always, always, there was Marco at the pedals, helping guide the way across the Lonely Sea. I have yet to venture off the course that was set for me by Sir Alistair Wakefield, but I see certain things on the old maps that make me curious. Are there other places to explore, somewhere in the immeasurable reaches of the Lonely Sea? Maybe my own children or their children will find these strange spots on the map. My way is set an in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home. ~ Patrick Carman

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub. ~ Alistair Begg

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. ~ Alistair Cooke

It is in the context ... of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit. ~ Alistair Begg

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap. ~ Alistair Cooke

One day I'm just going to say, "Good evening, I'm Alistair Cooke. Screw the plot! Watch the program. ~ Rebecca Eaton

We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross. ~ Alistair Begg

The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally. ~ Alistair Begg

There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven. ~ Alistair Begg

I've loved Anne Rice's books all my life and being able to talk with her was surreal. It was the only time I've ever been truly starstruck. ~ Alistair Cross

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God ... provides through Him. ~ Alistair Begg

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications. ~ Alistair Begg

I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3 ~ Alistair Begg

I enjoy reading for the sake of reading and my attitude about writing is the same. If a story line required it, I would absolutely write in another genre. ~ Alistair Cross

If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God. ~ Alistair Begg

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance. ~ Alistair Begg

My big dream was to write. I never thought about movie deals or book awards or bestseller lists. I still don't. All I've ever wanted from this gig is to sell enough books to allow me to keep writing more of them. ~ Alistair Cross

I knew people were dying around me on the railway but I didn't really want to know. It was too dispiriting. It was difficult to judge the full toll of casualties and by this stage I had become so self-obsessed, in a true mental battle just to get through each day. I had very few friends at Hellfire Pass and most of us were the same. We all worked so hard that, just trying to survive, each person became more and more insular as it became more difficult. It required a superhuman effort to make it to the end of each day. ~ Alistair Urquhart

There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained. ~ Alistair Overeem

Good things come ... " Her head fell back, giving him total access to her throat "to those who wait.' Patience is a virtue, Alistair. ~ Cristiane Serruya

The callings of God never leave you where they find you. ~ Alistair Begg

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia. ~ Alistair Sinclair

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-day and it would be indistinguishable from the one Wyatt Earp wore when he was the Marshal of Dodge City. It is the oldest hand-gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designated task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it is also probably the best hand-gun ever made. It is no light thing, it is true, to be wounded by some of the Peacemaker's more highly esteemed competitors, such as the Luger or Mauser: but the high-velocity, narrow-calibre, steel-cased shell from either of those just goes straight through you, leaving a small neat hole in its wake and spending the bulk of its energy on the distant landscape whereas the large and unjacketed soft-nosed lead bullet from the Colt mushrooms on impact, tearing and smashing bone and muscle and tissue as it goes and expending all its energy on you.
In short when a Peacemaker's bullet hits you in, say, the leg, you don't curse, step into shelter, roll and light a cigarette one-handed then smartly shoot your assailant between the eyes. When a Peacemaker bullet hits your leg you fall to the ground unconscious, and if it hits the thigh-bone and you are lucky enough to survive the torn arteries and shock, then you will never walk again without crutches because a totally disintegrated femur leaves the surgeon with no option but to cut your leg off. And so I stood absolut ~ Alistair MacLean

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag. ~ Alistair Cooke

I only need a mirror to see a sinner. ~ Alistair Begg

Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans. ~ Alistair Cockburn

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.

(Professor Alistair Dawkins) ~ Samuel L. Norman

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. ~ Alistair Darling

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. ~ Alistair MacLean

I believe in witches, Sophia," his deep voice hypnotized her.
"I hope you don't burn me at the stake," she murmured to him.
"I don't burn witches. I set them on fire," Alistair whispered so low Sophia thought she had heard wrong. ~ Cristiane Serruya

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously. ~ Alistair Brownlee

After all, you'll be selling to people. You need to know how to reach them, interrupt them, and make a difference in their lives at the exact moment when they need your solution. ~ Alistair Croll

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ's enabling you stand back up. ~ Alistair Begg

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope. ~ Alistair Begg

We get things wrong before we get things right. ~ Alistair Cockburn

There's an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don't notice at what point that you're actually overwhelmed by this. There's no showiness, at all. It's the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be very grey abstract, almost, with some lines and very, very beautiful. But you wouldn't have a notion of where the beauty was.
(Talking about the short stories of Alistair MacLeod, who he discovered while working on The Modern Library.) ~ Colm Toibin

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them. ~ Alistair MacLean

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us. ~ Alistair Begg

This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time. ~ Peter Lerangis

God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom. ~ Alistair Begg

I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season. ~ Alistair Brownlee

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all. ~ Alistair Begg

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ~ Alistair Cooke

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round. ~ Alistair Brownlee

The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if doing what is right and believing what is true should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will regard it as a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be even more friendly and will reveal Himself to him more graciously than ever. ~ Alistair Begg

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. ~ Alistair MacLeod

It is impossible to serve God without serving one another. ~ Alistair Begg

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ~ Alistair Cooke

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. ~ Alistair Cooke

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there. ~ Alistair MacLeod

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full. ~ Alistair Begg

Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked? ~ Alistair Begg

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State. ~ Alistair Cooke

Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch. ~ Alistair Cooke

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives. ~ Alistair Begg

The boy who harnessed the wind ~ Alistair Milne

I pointed out that the very proliferation of pseudo journalism these days, the cacophony of conjecture and partisan agendas and sensationalism that seem orchestrated above all to provoke and entertain, tended to leave me feeling as though I know less than ever what my government is doing in my name. Drinking, Alistair shrugged and nodded as if to concede: Yes, well, there's always the moronic inferno. ~ Lisa Halliday

We mustn't say more than we should, but we mustn't say less than we must. ~ Alistair Begg

Pipers at the Edinburgh contest were using two-droned pipes up until 1821, when such pipes were forbidden, because they allegedly gave an unfair advantage over other competitors playing the three-droned pipe. ~ Alistair Campsie

She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. "And I love him more for it. Do you hear me? He was a good man when he went away to the Colonies. He came back an extraordinary man. So many think that bravery is a single act of valor in a field of battle - no forethought, no contemplation of the consequences. An act over in a second or a minute or two at most. What my brother has done, is doing now, is to live with his burden for years. He knows that he will spend the rest of his life with it. And he soldiers on." She sat back in her chair, her gaze still locked with Helen's. "That to my mind is what real bravery is."
-Sophia to Helen about Alistair. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires ... never make her hold back. - Felicity (The Pleasure Room) ~ D.N. Simmons

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth. ~ Alistair Begg

I have a file in my phone that I'm always adding things to. People accuse me of texting too much but nine times out of ten, I'm not texting anyone. I'm recording ideas. ~ Alistair Cross

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble. ~ Alistair MacLean

The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority. ~ Alistair Begg

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher. ~ Alistair Cooke

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. ~ Alistair Darling

Perhaps it was true, thought Alistair, that Septembers would come again. People would love the crisp cool of the mornings, and it would not remind them of the week war was declared....Alistair let the idea grow: that when the war's heat was spent, the last remaining pilots would ditch their last bombs into the sea and land their planes on cratered airfields that would slowly give way to brambles. That pilots would take off their jackets and ties, and pick fruit. ~ Chris Cleave

Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts. ~ Alistair Begg

He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir Alistair stopped and looked back, looking with affection at Marco, Yipes, and me. "We all play our part. Some roles just dray on a little more than others. ~ Patrick Carman

In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf. ~ Alistair McHarg

I keep what's mine, and I do not share. ~ Sylvia Day

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken. ~ Patricia Briggs

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected. ~ Alistair Begg

Sophia, you're the best thing that could have happened to Alistair. I've never seen him happier than he is now. ~ Cristiane Serruya

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. ~ Alistair Begg

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. ~ Alistair MacLeod

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end. ~ Alistair Darling

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why. ~ Alistair Cooke

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years. ~ Alistair Darling

Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul. ~ Alistair Begg

Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence. ~ Alistair Begg

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. ~ Alistair Begg

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity. ~ Alistair Begg

I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place. ~ Maggie Smith

Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us. ~ Alistair Begg

Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is generally written by folks who grew up on horror; books, movies, etc. You can't simply decide to write - in any genre - if you don't first have an understanding of the topic and a strong mental backlog of reference. ~ Alistair Cross

Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this. ~ Alistair Cross

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets. ~ Alistair Cooke

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ~ Alistair Cooke