Jim Wallis Quotes
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.Jim Wallis
Quotes to Explore
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
Zhang Jindong -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain -
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt -
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
Nat Friedman -
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
Umberto Eco
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Walt Mossberg -
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi -
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
Eric Lynn Wright -
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
Candace Kita -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
Gary Bettman -
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
Dan Pink -
It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone -
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell -
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock -
Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
Ramez Naam -
Like a hawk about to devour its prey, the wings of public opinion hover above the head of the judge. All the Court’s decisions are disguised and indirect forms of pleading at the bar of public opinion.
Malcolm de Chazal -
It has never been in my power to study anything, - mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.
Laila Lalami -
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis