Obrc Eugene Quotes

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion. ~ Eugene Jarecki

I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time. ~ Eugene Mirman

To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it in the face of the evidence of its never-ending troubles. ~ Eugene Kennedy

The Bible, all of it, is livable; it is the text for living our lives. It reveals a God-created, God-ordered, God-blessed world in which we find ourselves at home and whole. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Be cunning and don't panic. Rely upon the agility of your wit. ~ Eugene F. Rice Jr.

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean? ~ Eugene Ionesco

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. ~ Eugene B. Sledge

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door. ~ Eugene Delacroix

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome. ~ Eugene O'Neill

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. ~ Eugene Field

it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people. ~ Eugene O'Neill

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say. ~ Eugene Fama

Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin.
'I walked,' replied Eugene.
'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.'
'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer. ~ Honore De Balzac

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. ~ Eugene Jarecki

The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer's tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche's laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran's sleep).

Crying, laughing, sleeping - what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent? ~ Eugene Thacker

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves. ~ Eugene Ionesco

We live most days and most of the hours of those days in a world permeated with the making and purchasing of idols. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Did you play? It sounded very good. ~ Eugene Ormandy

God uses language to create and command us. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked. ~ Eugene Delacroix

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't ... that should tell us something. ~ Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do. ~ Mike Birbiglia

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance? ~ Eugene B. Sledge

In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology" ... such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices ... so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology". ~ Rachel Carson

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped. ~ Eugene O'Neill

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure. ~ Eugene Mirman

I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places. ~ Eugene Mirman

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Why can't you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You'll find what you're trying to say in him- as you'll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'
- 'Fine! That's beautiful. But I wasn't trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let's drink up and forget it. That's more my idea. ~ Eugene O'Neill

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise. ~ Eugene Cernan

Survival...could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident. ~ Eugene Weinstock

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the living presence of Jesus. Every word of the scriptural text is a window or door leading us out of the tarpaper shacks of self into this great outdoors of God's revelation. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth. ~ Eugene V. Debs

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before? ~ Eugene Levy