United Bible Societies Quotes & Sayings

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing. — Joan Osborne

When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do. — Tom Douglas

You know, marriage is marriage, a partnership. You aren't the only one who needs to step up and keep one of us safe. It's my job as your wife to do the same if a time comes when I have to and it's my job to do it however that might need to come about. — Kristen Ashley

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. — Lionel Trilling

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it.
Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking. — Chris Hadfield

Australians have defied global economic gravity. — Wayne Swan

. . and Phillips, go to Staff Sergeant Pole, have him assign you to platoons." "Platoons, Gunnery Sergeant?" "Got extra food stored in your ears, Phillips? — Tanya Huff

That human life depends upon resources, good soil, and governments with just procedures. — Noah Cicero

If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too. — Alice Walker

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe. — Ovid

Dynamic equivalence is a central concept in the translation theory, developed by Eugene A. Nida, which has been widely adopted by the United Bible Societies...Purporting to be an academically linguistic concept, it is in fact a sociocultural concept of communication. Its definition is essentially behavourist: determined by external forces, such as society--with strong pragmatist overtones--focusing on the reader rather than the writer. [M]ost twentieth-century American philosophical endeavours are predominantly pragmatist, dwelling in the shadows cast by William James and John Dewey. — J. Cammenga

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond? — Jamie Dornan

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him. — Freya North