Incapacitation Effect Quotes & Sayings

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. — Jeff Daniels

Biblical preaching moves from exegetical commentary and doctrinal exposition to life instruction. Such preaching exhorts as well as expounds because it recognizes that Scripture's own goal is not merely to share information about God but to conform his people to the likeness of Jesus Christ. Preaching without application may serve the mind, but preaching with application results in service to Christ. Application makes Jesus the source and the objective of a sermon's exhortation as well as the focus of its explanation. — Bryan Chapell

Terrorism - radical jihadist terrorism is not theoretical to me. It's real. And for seven years, I spent my life protecting our country against another one of those attacks. You won't have to worry when I'm President of the Untied States whether that can be done because I've already done it. I want the chance to do it again to protect you, your children and your families. — Chris Christie

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. — Learned Hand

In the two decades after I left, I waited for the end of Wall Street as I had known it. The outrageous bonuses, the endless parade of rogue traders, the scandal that sank Drexel Burnham, the scandal that destroyed John Gutfreund and finished off Salomon Brothers, the crisis following the collapse of my old boss John Meriwether's Long-Term Capital Management, the Internet bubble: Over and over again, the financial system was, in some narrow way, discredited. Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility. The rebellion by American youth against the money culture never happened. Why bother to overturn your parents' world when you can buy it and sell off the pieces? — Michael Lewis

As a Christian, you are not the sum of your past. You are a brand-new person with a brand-new beginning. — Darlene Sala

Putin has big plans for Russia ... Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin. — Pope Francis

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters. — Lois Wyse

All three are terrific carpenters and cabinetmakers. — Nora Roberts

One has to wonder, do we really want people to grow, or do we just want to be in control of the moment? — Richard Rohr