Alistair Quotes & Sayings

That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares. — Cristiane Serruya

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be. — Alistair Begg

I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world. — Alistair MacLean

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

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

To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger. — Alistair Begg

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

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

The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself. — Alistair Cooke

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

Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing
they begin to believe in anything. — Alistair Begg

The black panic, that's what woke me; that all too familiar blend of terror and heinousness that buzzed beneath my skin where no eye could detect it and no scalpel could dig it out, where it would remain until I exorcised it out of me. Last night's memories were making their entrance. — Alistair Cross

You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ. — Alistair Begg

I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique. — Alistair MacLean

It's an acting job - acting natural. — Alistair Cooke

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism.
Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. — Alistair Urquhart

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. — Alistair Cooke

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

A dream," he whispered. "It's all a dream."
"How metaphysical of you," said the cat. "But we're neither of us impressed. — Anne Elisabeth Stengl

The Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright that it dazzles instead of revealing. — Alistair Gray

I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing. — Alistair Brownlee

For every quote, there is one that challenges it. — R. Alistair

When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom. — Alistair Begg

It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture. — Alistair Begg

Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true. — Alistair Begg

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

Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again. — Alistair Begg

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you. — Alistair Begg

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment. — Alistair Begg

We were weirdos, Fiona and I. Creative minds like ours were the minds of aliens. And the soul-suckers, the plagiarists, the malicious people like Charlie? They were sapping us. It was our mission to get away from them. — Aaron Starmer

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah. — Alistair Cooke

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence. — Alistair Cooke

When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time." — Alistair Cooke

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

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 once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful. — Alistair Begg

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray. — Alistair Cooke

Young Reggie Foljambe to my certain knowledge offered him double what I was giving him, and Alistair Bingham-Reeves, who's got a valet who had been known to press his trousers sideways, used to look at him, when he came to see me, with a kind of glittering, hungry eye which disturbed me deucedly. Bally pirates! — P.G. Wodehouse

Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given. — Alistair Begg

Alistair spoke behind his visor. "You look very pretty."
Mouse looked to Eanrin. "He sounds concerned. What did he say?"
"He said they're never going to believe you're a girl. — Anne Elisabeth Stengl

I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?' ...
It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery. — Chris Cleave

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

Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth. — 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

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio because the pictures were better. — Alistair Cooke

Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do. — Alistair Begg

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

Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us. — Alistair Begg

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

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

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive. — Alistair Begg

Sandy's was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place you'd take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistresses were impressed by the blandness of the over-priced wine and the vast Italian menu options. — Alistair Cross

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

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

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home. — Alistair Begg

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love ... — Alistair Begg

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

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

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

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye. — Alistair McHarg

These humiliations are the essence of the game. — Alistair Cooke

Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God's grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies. — Alistair Begg

You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach. — Alistair Begg

I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies. — Alistair Cockburn

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God. — Alistair Begg

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

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own. — Alistair Begg

What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them! — Alistair Begg

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

Question 1: What is the chief end of man? This most basic question confronts each of us. Why am I here? What is the reason for my existence? What is the purpose of my life? The catechism on the basis of 1 Corinthians 10:31 and Psalm 73:25 provides the familiar answer. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. — Alistair Begg

what would be left of it by that time - would be in the Kola — Alistair MacLean

To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this. — 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

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation ... either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it. — Alistair Begg

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness. — Alistair Begg

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation. — Alistair Begg

But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism. — Alistair Cooke

peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry; — Alistair Horne

For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree. — Alistair Cooke

Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than all the devils and the demons, but it also, more accurately, made me better than all the angels and gods. — Alistair Cross

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity. — Alistair Darling

Well, I did tell you I couldn't give you a thing. Maybe you've just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day! — LeeAnn Whitaker

Every athlete has training they enjoy and training that they do because they have to and they don't enjoy so much. Do the training you love, remind yourself why you do it and hopefully it'll all come good for you. — Alistair Brownlee

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best. — Alistair Overeem

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess. — Alistair Begg

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically ... You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out. — Alistair Begg

In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself. — Alistair Brownlee

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it. — Alistair Brownlee

I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people. — 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 foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact. — Alistair Begg

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly. — Alistair Begg

Don't just ask questions. Know how the answers to the questions will change your behavior. In other words, draw a line in the sand before you run the survey. — Alistair Croll

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

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

The thorns, ruthless in their protection of the beauty they upheld, tore at my skin, bleeding me like a vampire's victim and no doubt loving every moment of it. The vines snaked around my hands and arms trying to cut the circulation of blood. — Alistair Cross

Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews. — Alistair Cooke

You and I are more alike than you think," Alistair says.
"I don't see that at all," I say.
"Besides the fact that we both lied about our names," I add. — Carolyn MacCullough