Veit Quotes & Sayings

The city is a plague ... and I am the penicillin. — Jerry J.C. Veit

When we see something, we do not think of what we see as a separable aspect of it, a ghostly skin shed for our vision. We feel that we see the thing itself, rather than any occasion or extrusion of the thing. But when we hear something, we do not have the same sensation of hearing the thing itself. This is because objects do not have a single, invariant sound, or voice. How something sounds is literally contingent, depending upon what touches or comes into contact with it to generate the sound. We hear, as it were, the event of the thing, not the thing itself — Steven Connor

The CIO needs to be an enterprise 'polyglot,' to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond. — Pearl Zhu

Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on. — Martin Dugard

Luther was an extraordinary man of prayer himself. Veit Dietrich, one of Luther's friends, wrote: "There is not a day on which he does not devote at least three hours, the very ones most suitable for [work], to prayer. Once I was fortunate to overhear his prayer. Good God, what faith in his words! He speaks with the great reverence of one who speaks to his God, and with the trust and hope of one who speaks with his father and friend."163 Peter — Timothy Keller

Coincidences' happen when God is invited into the situation. We have learned to call them 'God-incidences — Wallace Brown

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in. — Sarah Vowell

I know that God exists. I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as the culture could earn them. I give all the credit to God. — Philo

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men. — E.C. Riegel

There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly ... finding meaning. — Jerry J.C. Veit

The world is small. Books make it bigger. — Jerry J.C. Veit

That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years. — Stephanie Cutter

The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries. — Michael Mandelbaum

I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations are either white with Asian and Hispanic, or black with Asian and Hispanic. — Michael Emerson