“When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.” PeopleIfsSaidStillsI CanHelpingProcessStruggleTelevisionOffersPercentAttractionCuresTemptationTherapyHomosexualPornographyTherapistsTherapeutic Author:Alan Chambers
“This is the church's job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling, who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life. That's good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.” PeopleNeedsShouldBodyJobsChristChurchStruggleOffersNewsPursueWho We AreReach OutGood NewsWholeheartedlyBody Of Christ Author:Alan Chambers
“My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.” DesireBeliefWonderfulChangedOffersWonderful ThingsAlignmentExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.” IfsFeelsFormAbilityTvsOffersNarrativeFilmmakerMakersDocumentaries Author:Mark Duplass
“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.” YearsBigsAbleArtistSongKingsOffersSucceedTwentiesIntelligentHip HopNineHipsSubstanceThirtyHopsTeenageMcdonaldsMacsExtendingMtvRansomHip Hop ArtistTeenage LifeBig Mac Author:Chuck D
“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.” YearsFirstsWellsLongMadeIdeasTermSecretHalfKnownIssuesFiveFourNiceInfluenceNew YorkMonthsOffersDecidedMadDinnerMagazinesComicEditorsGood IdeasGuestsSensibilityLong LifeVery NiceLong Love Author:Al Yankovic
“While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.” IfsThinkingWellsI CanHelpingWonderOffersTeaSlipsConsidering Author:Andrew Flintoff
“And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.” ThinkingWayLittlesUsedTermOne ThingProductsOffersUsed To BeComicUncomfortableSincereSincerity80s Author:Moshe Kasher
“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” PovertyOffersBarsGreat SocietyUnderpaid Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.” WantTryingI CanCharacterOffersDirectors Author:Karen Allen
“I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to be able to offer books, tapes, and products designed to make people feel good. I would explain that they are in a store filled with this kind of energy and that creating such a space is exactly why I got into the business in the first place. If you want to feel good, then my store is the place you should visit on a regular basis. I would stay very informed about what's out there and make sure I carry many things with very high energy.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsShouldFirstsWellsKindPersonsBookAbleEnergySpaceProductsOffersCreatingModelsBasesFilledStoresFeel GoodWell BeingTapePresentingHigh Energy Author:Wayne Dyer
“Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.” HumansWellsReasonTechnologyOffersWork OutAlternativesScience And TechnologyHuman Reason Author:Thomas Keating
“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.” WorldMindMadeRealFeelingsProblemFormDesireAnswersTechnologyFantasyMagicReaderOffersTrapped Author:Lev Grossman
“When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it's nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it's nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsDoeDoneWholeShowsBitsComedyNiceMaterialsNeededOffersStartingOfferingProven Author:B. J. Porter
“I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.” IfsKindMayStillsEndsFactsUseChoicesTermChristianityIssuesParticularOffersBuddhistAlternativesNot SureMetaphysicsNihilismSuggestingLife Span Author:George Pattison
“Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.” IfsBelieveHumansDoeSeemsCoursesReadingJesusInterestChristReligiousConditionsParticularSonFineOffersPicksJesus ChristInsightSignificantSuitsHuman ConditionNeverthelessScholarshipSaviourCherriesAuthorshipSloppyPersonal InterestHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“While you were four, you didn't know anything other than being terrified and scared; you're not four any longer. Now [as an adult] you have to make a choice and recognize that even the abuse that came into your life offers you an opportunity to transcend it, to become a better person and even more significantly, to help someone else not go through what you did.” KnowsPersonsHelpingChoicesOpportunityFourOffersAdultsAbuseScaredTerrifiedBetter Person Author:Wayne Dyer
“Unlike many people today, Jesus did not teach that all religions in the world are simply different paths up the same mountain of truth that leads to God. Jesus could not have been more clear: he offers the only way to heaven.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensDifferentTodayJesusHeavenTeachPathClearOffersMountainDifferent Paths Author:Robert Jeffress
“Of the seven billion people who reside on planet Earth, only 25% could, in the broadest sense of the word, be classified as "Christian" (and the percentage who have personally trusted in Christ for salvation is much smaller), meaning that over five billion people in the world are destined to hell if indeed Christ offers the exclusive path for salvation. To many people, such a claim is offensive.” PeopleIfsWorldEarthChristianChristHellPathFivePlanetsOffersClaimsSalvationSevenBillionsTrustedOffensiveDestinedExclusivePercentagesPlanet Earth Author:Robert Jeffress
“Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.” WayDifferentCommonTeachShareTheoryOffersEternityVariousVarietyCharacteristicsRitualLife Death Author:Robert Jeffress
“The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you finding the right school.” ShouldSchoolProcessInterestCollegeOffersFindings Author:Billy Kennedy
“There are fourteen keys to experiencing greater love and with each key, I offer what I believe to be the most effective tool out there. So this is a time when, if we're awake to it, we have an amazing opportunity to start living a different life. By that I mean the life that our souls came here to live. We're all being propelled forward and it's not always easy, but through supporting one another we can do it.” IfsBelieveMeanDifferentSoulOpportunityI BelieveEasyCan DoGreaterKeysOffersToolsAwakeFourteenDifferent LifeGreater LoveAmazing Opportunities Author:Marci Shimoff
“The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy and pointless for the chemists to essay physical reductions, or for the biologists to offer number-free explanations. It's a weird kind of science-worship that views these practical considerations as clues to the nature of reality.)” KindRealityViewsNumbersMoralPracticeOffersWorshipPracticalsFeaturesExplanationConsiderationRelevantMetaphysicalClueEssaysMessyMundanePointlessReductionBiologistChemist Author:David Papineau
“There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to the world that I had something to offer - that kind of youthful spirit, where maybe I had my eye on fame and fortune. I mellowed out in my late 20s and now that I'm in my early 30s, I'm coming to peace with it.” WorldKindEyeSpiritOffersFameProveLateFortuneMotivatedTeensEarly 20s Author:Lissie
“Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.” IfsWantWritingTryingLosesVisionImagineFieldsOffersCapableWeightPermanentChocolateArticlesBowlsImmoralCookiesAttemptingRejectingLose WeightYour Favorite Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.” FirstsMadeDifferentPhilosophyShowsSeemsMightPossibilityPerspectiveOffersPagesArgumentPhilosophicalValuableAssumptionDifferent PlaceNew Possibilities Author:Philip Kitcher
“I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some real sympathy with the work of those moral realists who have tried to give naturalistic accounts of human flourishing, and who offer accounts of right action in such terms. (I suppose this is more evidence that I really do have deep affinities with Aristotle!)” GivingHumansIdeasRealMightActionUsedTermMoralOffersEvidenceAccountsPhilosophicalCategoriesRealistFlourishingAffinityRight Action Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.” LittlesImportantOffersValuable Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.” PeopleThinkingImportantBuddhismOffersMethodPracticalsConcreteWhat's Important Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.” WellsIdeasPhilosophyBitsPsychologyOffersReverseCognitiveCognitive Science Author:L.A. Paul
“Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.” DifferentPracticeDisciplineOffersDoctorsMedicalTherapyPsychiatristMedicationPsychotherapyMedical Doctor Author:Jed Diamond
“Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.” GrowsParentUnderstandingSidesAcceptanceOffersUnconditional LoveBoth SidesUnconditionalTherapists Author:Jed Diamond
“I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better known healing practices.” FoundEnergyHealingKnownPracticeOffersMedicineTechniqueEnergy Medicine Author:Jed Diamond
“I always feel very grateful when someone offers me a job.” FeelsJobsOffersGrateful Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsLongEnoughShowsDreamLastsGrowsCommunityFiveSawsNiceSpecialAdviceStageNew YorkOffersWarmCirclesFive YearsNormBroadwayDreams Come TrueNurturingVery NiceBest AdviceAdmiringFull CircleBroadway ShowsLast Five Years Author:Tituss Burgess
“For me, it's about having a full life wherever I come to set my hat for a while; so I like to be in a place that offers me a base that's rich and full of people. New York certainly has that at the moment.” PeopleMomentsRichNew YorkOffersHatsFull Life Author:Sean Mahon
“I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.” WayArtistQualityEffectsOffersEuropeCrossesJazzTheatreSectionsEasternForbiddenAlienationFrontiersTotalitarianismSurrealismEastern EuropeCzechAnything GoesBrecht Author:Nicholas Royle
“I think it's important to always offer something new.” ThinkingImportantOffersSomething New Author:Tom Petty
“I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.” WorldKindAbleStrongAttitudeArmsOffersMusicianStrongestArrogantPassive Author:Lisa Gerrard
“I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.” ThinkingDogWallOffersGuitar Author:Feist
“I've always feel like it's been my place to offer an alternative.” FeelsOffersAlternatives Author:DJ Shadow
“I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.” PeopleWayKindLittlesPlaySeemsStrongOffersGunToughMy WayFeminineStrong WomenTanksBrasHackersTank TopsTough Women Author:Angelina Jolie
“I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.” ImportantBodyYoungGoalRealizingTeachingOffersSettingSettingsYoung WomenSetting Goals Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."” WantWritingWellsBigsOffersMagazinesPublishingEdits Author:Fran Lebowitz
“As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.” WayCountryHelpingUseGrowsClearOffersToolsBiggerTablesTradeRoundsDevelopingWealthyTradersBargainingOld WaysDeveloping Countries Author:Daniel Altman
“I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet from your ancestors and I think that if you just leave anyone to become a poet based on an aristocratic society, then a lot of people are left out who might have something to offer.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHas BeensMightLeftPositionPoetOffersAncestorLeft OutAristocratic Author:Edward Hirsch
“I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.” ThinkingWayHas BeensCulturePossibilityOffersAngelWesternVampireNew WaysImaginativeWestern Culture Author:Danielle Trussoni
“It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it reminds you of when you're a kid and you go to the amusement park and whether it be Disneyworld or Six Flags you know that thrilling moment when you first enter and you know you've got all these possibilities for the day and it's really a... it's a wonderful feeling.” KnowsFirstsMomentsFeelingsKidsChoicesWonderfulPossibilityOffersSixParksFlagsAmusementThrillingAmusement Parks Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Also if they choose from more options than fewer options they're less satisfied with what they choose and that is true whether they're choosing chocolates or which job offer to accept.” IfsJobsAcceptingOffersSatisfiedChocolateFewer Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.” PeopleIfsThinkingMaySoulSelfEnoughActionSpiritHumanityPerfectPrinciplesSelf LoveOffersBehaviorVicesOccasionsImpulseVirtuousTemptedAcquaintanceExploitsMaliceReproachLawlessnessGuiding Principles Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable