Acculturation Theory Quotes & Sayings

We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it ... In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn't just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves - has allowed us to be "sub-creators," as J. R. R. Tolkien says
we may rightly take delight in the things that we (and others) make. Reading for the sheer delight of it - reading at whim - is therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is. — Alan Jacobs

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. — Erin Heatherton

I'd walked away from 'Come Dancing' and gave 'Blankety Blank' the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn't follow my instinct to escape from 'Wogan,' and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that. — Terry Wogan

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations. — Jason Gann

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. — Hugh Grant

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him. — Lev S. Vygotsky

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service. — Mother Teresa

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. — Ovid

There must be a God because he made me. — Todd Rundgren

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover. — Paul Watson

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me. — Mikhail Prokhorov