I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.


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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
PHILIP SCHAFF
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
PHILIP YANCEY
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so i...
PHILIP YANCEY
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poem...
PHILIP LARKIN
I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'C...
PHILIP KERR
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of t...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare
GENEREUX PHILIP
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
PHILIP ROTH
I don't play head games... I come from a family that could easily be called Generous to a fault.
GENEREUX PHILIP
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the i...
PHILIP REEVE
Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidde...
PHILIP LARKIN
America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
PHILIP TREACY
A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
PHILIP TREACY
You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of G...
PHILIP YANCEY
Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religi...
PHILIP REEVE
Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.
GENEREUX PHILIP
My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl...
PHILIP TREACY
I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ
Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even. Letting yourself fall victim to overth...
GENEREUX PHILIP
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,...
PHILIP PULLMAN
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Chris...
PHILIP YANCEY
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
PHILIP SIDNEY
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH
The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that the...
PHILIP GREENSPUN
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ...
PHILIP MORRISON
I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI