Mark Batterson Quotes

I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Chicago
  • Comfort
  • Sounds

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Rest

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Doubt

• It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Rebel

• I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Why
  • Political
  • Fire

• I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Year
  • Round
  • Tuxedo

• I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Dog

• We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Confidence
  • Momentum

• My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Father
  • Husband

• I would rather wait and keep working on myself harder and wait for the right opportunity. It is not quantity but quality I should be remembered for.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Quality

• Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Mind
  • Always
  • Back

• The worst form anger can take is that of a parent who feels her or his chance for 'winning my child' is enhanced by 'ruining my ex.' The law has given the most vindictive parent an invitation to play the 'abuse' card. This is the 'Great Temptation.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Great
  • Law
  • Winning

• When President Kirchner complains, I often sympathise with him, because Argentina was deindustrialised, and it is perfectly normal for the president of a country to try to get industry back.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • Country

• Follow your heart, stay true to the gift that is on your life, go forth in the strength that you have, be comfortable in your grace zone, be confident in your call - and watch as God exceeds your every expextation and leads you into a wide-open and spacious life.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• The number of the fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Powers
  • Surpass
  • Counted

• Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Spirituality
  • Cells
  • Hermits

• Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Democracy

• I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

  

  Mark Batterson