P T Forsyth Quotes

#1. P. T. Forsyth's book Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. These are its opening words: 'It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.

John R.W. Stott

#2. Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

Kate Forsyth

#3. It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

Bill Forsyth

#4. Angry letters of complaint, redundancy notices and ransom notes will, if written in careful hypotaxis, sound as reasonable, measured and genial as a good dose of rough Enlightenment pornography.

Mark Forsyth

#5. What they do no' understand, they fear, and they hate what makes them afraid, for they think it is a sign o' weakness.

Kate Forsyth

#6. Position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having

Frederick Forsyth

#7. The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Bill Forsyth

#8. I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

Kate Forsyth

#9. Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

Bruce Forsyth

#10. It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

Bill Forsyth

#11. War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

Kate Forsyth

#12. Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Bill Forsyth

#13. It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

Bruce Forsyth

#14. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

Frederick Forsyth

#15. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

Mark Forsyth

#16. Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.

William Forsyth Sharpe

#17. Only the lame could love and only the maimed could mourn

Kate Forsyth

#18. Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

P.T. Forsyth

#19. We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

P.T. Forsyth

#20. It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin.

P.T. Forsyth

#21. The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

P.T. Forsyth

#22. Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.

Mark Forsyth

#23. Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

Bruce Forsyth

#24. That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

Bruce Forsyth

#25. After the snap, Chad took off like a gazelle and the quarterback hurled a 30-yard bomb that rocketed straight to him. Fast as Chad was, Joshua ran him down like a Discovery Channel cheetah. It was no contest.

C. Michael Forsyth

#26. Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

Mark Forsyth

#27. In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.

Richard Benjamin

#28. I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

Bruce Forsyth

#29. Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart.

Elizabeth Held Forsyth

#30. Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

Bruce Forsyth

#31. A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bruce Forsyth

#32. I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

Kate Forsyth

#33. On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

Frederick Forsyth

#34. You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

Bruce Forsyth

#35. I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

Bruce Forsyth

#36. Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of 'Mary Jane' for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember.

Mark Forsyth

#37. Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Peter Forsyth

#38. At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

Bill Forsyth

#39. Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.

Bruce Forsyth

#40. The period is one of the most complicated and concepts of classical rhetoric. Nobody in the ancient world could quite decide what it meant, but they were united in the belief that it was terribly, terribly important.

Mark Forsyth