Fulton Oursler Quotes
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
Quotes to Explore
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
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My job is to stop Britain from going red.
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I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
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Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable. We kill only in the name of a god or of his counterfeits: the excesses provoked by the goddess Reason, by the concept of nation, class, or race are akin to those of the Inquisition or of the Reformation.
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
