Kristin Armstrong Quotes
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
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I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
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Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
