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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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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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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Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.
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It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.
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Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.
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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.
