Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone’s movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you’re starting out, you’re willing to do anything.
No cross no crown.
You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.
I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you’re the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
You don’t see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It’s hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I’ve to make sure I don’t cross over into mimicry.
I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like – that it’s not just knowledge… but it’s allowing the truth to change you – allowing Christ’s message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.
There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line.
How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father – the passion, the fury – and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love ‘La Bamba.’
I’d like to be a cross between Bruce Parry and Keith Floyd. Someone with a sense of adventure who truly loves food.
It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, ‘You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,’ but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it’s not something that would ever cross my mind.
I’ve had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I’m on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I’m not very adaptable.
I drove from L.A. to the bottom of Florida on Vespas, and I drove cross country multiple times in a car. I’ve done a lot of road tripping.
I never cross my legs.
It makes me cross that no one takes great pride in doing a good job. It’s so rare to find someone who really loves their trade.
My mother’s cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.
I can be a bit weird, cross when I’m cross, tired when I’m tired, and hungry when I’m hungry.
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
I have nothing against crossing over, but I don’t need to change to cross over.
At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against ‘None of the below.’
I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens.
Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn’t even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That’s not shy, that’s wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist’s notebook in your hand it wasn’t really you, you see.
Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
I usually just speak in English when I’m on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I’m playing basketball.
Black cats cross my path all the time. I’ll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.
Let’s face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it’s like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
When I sing a pop song, I’m a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I’m a country singer. I’ve been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can’t be pigeonholed.
I wear my dad’s cross. It’s very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.
Fans in Brazil cross the line. A few times at Fluminense, the fans would go to the airport after we had played away to shout at us.
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it’s what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
In this country, if a woman wants to work, she has very little choice. After you cross the age suitable for a heroine, there is nothing in the middle; the next thing you do is you become a mother.
The Cross Movement was a group that was a huge encouragement to me. The music was good. The content was good. It really spoke to my soul. It was good to have them around as someone I could learn from and really pattern myself after.
I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.
There’s been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there’s a price to pay.
I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
To shun one’s cross is to make it heavier.
I never folded, I didn’t have to hate on anybody, I didn’t have to cross anybody or fall out with anyone because I’m not on that vibe. My frequency is on a whole other level.
When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.
There has to be everything, but above all respect. Sometimes you cross the barrier of respect for many things – because you do not want to let the rival be, for being the eternal rival.
The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Email has the virtue – sounds like a bad thing, but it’s the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It’s not some particular company’s platform.
To do comedy, there are so many hurdles one has to cross.
I love stock-car racing and NASCAR. I kind of take offense to anybody who has any cross words about it. It’s kind of like your brother. You can talk all the crap you want about him, but you won’t let anyone else do it.
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Every time you say ‘I don’t want to hear it’ when someone is going to tell an ethnic joke, or every time you help somebody cross the street or put money in the bucket in your place of worship, you’re making a difference.
