Outler Quotes

#1. the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

Albert C. Outler

#2. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick

#3. If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

Simon Bird

#4. The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#5. How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.

Campbell McGrath

#6. Janvier watched Ashwini stride away, her hips moving provocatively beneath the snug fit of her jeans. "Take care of her," he said quietly to his friend. "She is my eternity, Louis.

Nalini Singh

#7. The enemy is not me. The enemy is Barack Obama.

Robert Pittenger

#8. Believe you can, then go out and create your own universe.

Timothy Pina

#9. You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.

Mark Buchanan

#11. Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

Albert Outler

#12. I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

Paul Haggis

#13. The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

Craig Venter

#14. In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

Alberto Manguel

#15. Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.

William Fulton

#16. The great companies get built by their founders

Marc Andreessen